First record of Permianella He & Zhu, 1979 (Permianellidae; Brachiopoda) from Peninsular Malaysia

The first record of a permianellid species from the Leptodus shales of the Gua Musang Formation, northwest Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia is documented. The specimen is assigned to Permianella typica He & Zhu, 1979 and is most likely late Guadalupian in age based on its association with Vediproductus Sarytcheva (in Ruzhentsev & Sarytcheva 1965). This new record is the most southerly occurrence of the genus Permianella.