Kalapani (Triassic of India)

Where: Uttarakhand, India (30.2° N, 80.9° E: paleocoordinates 44.6° S, 62.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Smith

Primary reference: C. Diener. 1907. The Fauna of the Himalayan Muschelkalk. Palaeontologia Indica 15(5):1-140 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 206203: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 04.11.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Ptychitidae
Ptychites sahadeva Diener 1895 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Ceratitidae
"Ceratites kuvera n. sp." = Favreticeras kuvera
"Ceratites kuvera n. sp." = Favreticeras kuvera Diener 1895 ceratite
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
"Dielasma himalayanum" = Adygella himalayana
"Dielasma himalayanum" = Adygella himalayana Bittner 1899
 Rhynchonellida - Norellidae
"Rhynchonella trinodosi" = Nudirostralina trinodosi, "Rhynchonella griesbachi" = Nudirostralina griesbachi
"Rhynchonella trinodosi" = Nudirostralina trinodosi Bittner 1890
"Rhynchonella griesbachi" = Nudirostralina griesbachi Bittner 1899
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Spirigera stoliczkai Bittner 1899
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae
"Spiriferina stracheyi" = Tulungospirifer stracheyi
"Spiriferina stracheyi" = Tulungospirifer stracheyi Salter 1865