Where: India (32.3° N, 78.0° E: paleocoordinates 32.5° 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)
• Virgatosphinctes-Himalayites zone
• group of beds-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 65891: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Pterolytoceras exoticum" = Pterolytoceras exoticus
"Pterolytoceras exoticum" = Pterolytoceras exoticus Oppel 1863 ammonite | |
Kossmatia sp. Uhlig 1907 ammonite | |
Virgatosphinctes densiplicatus ammonite
Virgatosphinctes sp. Uhlig 1910 ammonite
Virgatosphinctes communis Spath 1931 ammonite | |
Himalayites sp. ammonite
Aulacosphinctes cf. latouchi ammonite |