Guryul Ravine Bed 88, Member H (Triassic of India)

Where: Kashmir, India (34.1° N, 75.0° E: paleocoordinates 39.7° S, 61.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: H Member (Khunamuh Formation), Smithian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: K. Nakazawa, H. M. Kapoor, K.I. Ishii, Y. Bando, Y. Okimura, T. Tokuoka, M. Murata, K. Nakamura, Y. Nogami, S. Sakagami, and D. Shimizu. 1975. The Upper Permian and Lower Triassic in Kashmir, India. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Series of Geology and Mineralogy 42(1):1-106 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 115381: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.09.2011

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Prionitidae
Meekoceras gracilitatis White 1879 ceratite
Wasatchites sp. Mathews 1929 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Arctoceratidae
"Meekoceras jolinkense" = Submeekoceras mushbachanum
"Meekoceras jolinkense" = Submeekoceras mushbachanum White 1879 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Paranoritidae
Koninckites sp. Waagen 1895 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Kashmiritidae
Kashmirites subarmatus Diener 1913 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Paranannitidae
Owenites koeneni Hyatt and Smith 1905 ceratite
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Hunanopectinidae
Leptochondria minima Kiparisova 1938 scallop
 Pectinida - Claraiidae
"Claraia decidens" = Crittendenia decidens
"Claraia decidens" = Crittendenia decidens Bittner 1899 scallop
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Gondolellidae
"Neospathodus waageni" = Novispathodus waageni
"Neospathodus waageni" = Novispathodus waageni Sweet 1970 conodont