Gaitey, Spiti Shale, Himalayites zone, Himachal Pradesh (Jurassic of India)

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

• grey to black shales

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
 Ammonitida - Himalayitidae
Himalayites aff. seideli Oppel 1863 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
 Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae