Bukh Ravine, Trias, Salt Range (Triassic of Pakistan)

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
 Ceratitida - Ceratitidae
"Ceratites" inflatus n. sp. Waagen 1895 ceratite