Vurcha, Salt Range (Fleming Ceratite Fm coll) (Triassic of Pakistan)

Where: Pakistan (32.5° N, 72.0° E: paleocoordinates 39.8° S, 56.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Triassic (252.2 - 247.2 Ma)

• Highly probably from the "Ceratite Formation" according to Waagen, but "impossible to say from what part"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Andrew Fleming in 1848,1852

• Repository: Geological Society of London collections (as of 1895)

Primary reference: L. G. de Koninck. 1863. Descriptions of some fossils from India, discovered by Dr. A. Fleming of Edinburgh. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 19:1-19 [G. Webster/G. Webster]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 143617: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.04.2013, edited by Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
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Saurichthys indicus n. sp. de Koninck 1863 reptile
Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Acrodontidae
Acrodus flemingianus n. sp. de Koninck 1863 elasmobranch
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Proptychitidae
Proptychites latifimbriatus n. sp. de Koninck 1863 ceratite
C.21966 (holotype)
 Ceratitida - Gyronitidae
"Prionolobus impressus" = Ambites discus, "Koninckites davidsonianus n. sp." = Kingites davidsonianus
"Prionolobus impressus" = Ambites discus Waagen 1895 ceratite
previously identified as Ceratites buchianus
"Koninckites davidsonianus n. sp." = Kingites davidsonianus de Koninck 1863 ceratite
C.21967 (holotype)