Where: Pakistan (32.4° N, 72.2° E: paleocoordinates 40.8° S, 56.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Ceratite Limestone Formation, Dienerian (250.5 - 251.2 Ma)
• "Uppermost beds of the Lower Ceratite Limestone near the boundary of the Ceratite-Marls"
• 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 143843: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Gyronites superior n. sp." = Ambites superior, "Prionolobus ovalis n. sp." = Ambites superior
"Gyronites superior n. sp." = Ambites superior Waagen 1895 ceratite
"Prionolobus ovalis n. sp." = Ambites superior Waagen 1895 ceratite |