Where: India (32.3° N, 78.0° E: paleocoordinates 32.6° S, 45.9° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Spiti Shale Formation, Late/Upper Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)
• Himalayites zone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. B. Pathak. 1997. Ammonoid stratigraphy of the Spiti Shale Formation in Spiti Himalaya, India. Journal of the Geological Society of India 50:191-200 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 65883: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Himalayites aff. seideli Oppel 1863 ammonite | |
Kossmatia tenuistriata ammonite
Kossmatia aff. koeneni ammonite
Blanfordiceras cricki Uhlig 1910 ammonite | |
Virgatosphinctes densiplicatus ammonite | |
Spiticeras aff. bulliformis ammonite
Spiticeras eximus ammonite |