Tinkar Lipu (Sandy Limestone) (Triassic to of Nepal)

Where: Byans, Nepal (30.1° N, 81.0° E: paleocoordinates 31.1° S, 49.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Sandy Limestone Formation, Carnian to Carnian (237.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sandy limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Swiss Academy of Sciences Himalayan expedition in 1936

• Repository: Geological Department, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich

Primary reference: A. Jeannet. 1939. Palaeontological identifications, in (Heim & Gansser) Central Himalaya: Geologic Observations of the Swiss Expedition 1936. Mémoires de la Société Helvétique des Sciences Naturelles 1-245 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 214671: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 12.10.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Gymnitidae
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Halobiidae
Halobia styriaca Mojsisovics 1874 oyster
Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Discophyllitidae
Discophyllites sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite
Discophyllites aff. ebneri Mojsisovics 1896 ammonite
 Ceratitida - Tropitidae
Anatropites sp. Mojsisovics 1893 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Haloritidae
? Halorites sp. Mojsisovics 1879 ceratite
Molengraaffites sp. Welter 1914 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Thisbitidae
Thisbites sp. Mojsisovics 1893 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Tropiceltitidae
 Ceratitida - Juvavitidae
Dimorphites sp. Mojsisovics 1893 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Cladiscitidae
"Cladiscites cf. pusillus" = Cladiscites quadratus
"Cladiscites cf. pusillus" = Cladiscites quadratus von Mojsisovics 1873 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Arcestidae
Arcestes sp., "Arcestes cf. piae" = Gonarcestes piae
Arcestes sp. Suess 1865 ceratite
"Arcestes cf. piae" = Gonarcestes piae Diener 1919 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Ceratitidae
? Beyrichites sp. Waagen 1895 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Trachyceratidae
"Sirenites cf. elegans" = Pseudosirenites elegans, Sirenites cf. alixis, "Polycyclus sp." = Hannaoceras
"Sirenites cf. elegans" = Pseudosirenites elegans von Mojsisovics 1896 ceratite
"Polycyclus sp." = Hannaoceras Tomlin 1931 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Gymnitidae
"Placites sakuntala" = Paragymnites sakuntala, Gymnites sp.
"Placites sakuntala" = Paragymnites sakuntala von Mojsisovics 1896 ceratite
Gymnites sp. von Mojsisovics 1882 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Pinacoceratidae
Pinacoceras sp. von Mojsisovics 1873 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Megaphyllitidae
? Megaphyllites sp. Mojsisovics 1879 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Tibetitidae
? Welterites sp. Diener 1923 ceratite
Hauerites cf. rarestriatus Hauer 1849 ceratite
Metacarnites sp. Diener 1908 ceratite
Paratibetites adolphi von Mojsisovics 1896 ceratite
Paratibetites cf. tornquisti von Mojsisovics 1896 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Clionitidae
"Clionites sp." = Clionitites
"Clionites sp." = Clionitites Strand 1929 ceratite
 Nautilida - Clydonautilidae
 Aulacoceratida - Xiphoteuthididae
Atractites sp. Guembel 1861 belemnite
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832