MUD31, Mud section, Spiti (Triassic of India)

Where: India (32.0° N, 78.0° E: paleocoordinates 45.0° S, 60.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Prionolobus rotundatus ammonoid zone, Mirkin Formation, Dienerian (250.5 - 251.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, nodular lime mudstone and lithified mudstone

• Limestone nodules in mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Brühwiler, D. Ware, H. Bucher, L. Krystyn, and N. Goudemand. 2010. New Early Triassic ammonoid faunas from the Dienerian/Smithian boundary beds at the Induan/Olenekian GSSP candidate at Mud (Spiti, Northern India). Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 39:724-739 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 104983: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.02.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Gyronitidae
Kingites korni n. sp.
Kingites korni n. sp. Brühwiler et al. 2010 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Paranoritidae
"? Radioceras cf. kraffti" = Pashtunites kraffti, "Prionolobus rotundatus" = Koninckites vetustus
"? Radioceras cf. kraffti" = Pashtunites kraffti Spath 1930 ceratite
"Prionolobus rotundatus" = Koninckites vetustus Waagen 1895 ceratite