Pin Fm., Pin Valley, near Farka Muth village, unit P/11 (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: shallow subtidal; sandy limestone

• 80 m of sandy to pure limestone, yielding abundant remains of shallow-marine organisms (calcareous algae, stromatoporoids, corals, brachiopods, bryozoans, echinoderms, molluscs, trilobites and conodonts).

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 144037: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 29.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata - Aisenvergiidae
Eridotrypa suecica
Eridotrypa suecica Brood 1978
 Trepostomata - Heterotrypidae
Dekayia gregaria
 Trepostomata - Halloporidae
Calloporella harrisi
 Trepostomida - Amplexoporidae
Discotrypa aff. elegans
 Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae
Orbignyella aff. lamellosa
 Cryptostomata - Escharoporidae
Oanduellina himalayaica
 Cryptostomata - Ptilodictyidae
Stellatodictya plana, Phaenopora ordinarius, Cladodictya markhensis, Ptilodictya exiliformis
 Cryptostomata - Rhinoporidae
Lichenalia concentrica
 Cryptostomata - Arthrostylidae
Ulrichostylus bhargavai
  - Phylloporinidae
? Pesnastylus vesiculosum