Where: Pakistan (32.5° N, 72.0° E: paleocoordinates 39.3° S, 56.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Ceratite Limestone Formation, Smithian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)
• According to Waagen, Mr. Wynne's label is only signed "Trias" but the lithology suggests it is highly probable that it came from the Upper Ceratite Limestone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by A.B. Wynne
• Repository: probably Geological Survey of India
Primary reference: W. Waagen. 1895. Fossils from the Ceratite Formation. Salt Range Fossils, Palaeontologia Indica, Series 13 2(1):1-323 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 143636: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Ceratites" inflatus n. sp.
"Ceratites" inflatus n. sp. Waagen 1895 ceratite |