Koofri, above typical Upper Ceratite Limestone, Salt Range (Triassic of Pakistan)

Where: Pakistan (32.5° N, 72.1° E: paleocoordinates 39.4° S, 57.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Ceratite Limestone Formation, Smithian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• "in limestone beds which were a little above the typical Upper Ceratite limestones, and which I am inclined to consider as about intermediate between these and the Bivalve limestones; belonging, however, rather to the lower than to the upper group."

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. Waagen

• 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 143648: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.04.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Danubitidae
"Celtites" acuteplicatus Waagen 1895 ceratite
"several fragments"