Pin Fm., Pin Valley, near Farka Muth village, unit P/8 (Ordovician of India)

Where: India (32.0° N, 78.1° E: paleocoordinates 22.6° S, 148.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Amorphognathus ordovicicus conodont zone, Pin Formation, Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; sandy limestone

• Cycle 1 (0–140 m) starts in a very shallow marine to nearshore facies followed by a transgression at P/7 persisting to P/9.
• Sandy to pure nodular limestones, which are succeeded by a few metres of silt and sandstones

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: T. J. Suttner and A. Ernst. 2007. Upper Ordovician bryozoans of the Pin Formation (Spiti Valley, Northern India). Palaeontology 50(6):1485-1518 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144034: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 29.04.2013

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Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Ptilodictyidae
Ptilodictya exiliformis, Phaenopora ordinarius
  - Phylloporinidae
? Pesnastylus vesiculosum