Nammal Nala, LMH-16 (Triassic of Pakistan)

Where: Punjab, Pakistan (32.7° N, 71.8° E: paleocoordinates 40.4° S, 56.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ceratite Marls Formation, Dienerian (250.5 - 251.2 Ma)

• Faunas described within "Local Maximal Horizons", which constitute a small group of samples/beds; LMH16 includes sample Nam350 (Ware et al. 2018)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: concretionary limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository - Paläontologisches Institut und Museum der Universität Zürich, Switzerland (PIMUZ)

Primary reference: D. Ware, H. Bucher, T. Brühwiler, E. Schneebeli-Hermann, P. A. Hochuli, G. Roohi, K. Ur-Rehman and A. Yaseen. 2018. Griesbachian and Dienerian (Early Triassic) ammonoids from the Salt Range, Pakistan. Fossils and Strata 63:13-175 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 217492: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 12.02.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Hedenstroemiidae
Pseudosageceras simplelobatum Ware and Bucher 2018 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Paranoritidae
Awanites awani n. gen. n. sp. Ware and Bucher 2018 ceratite
PIMUZ30422 (holotype)
Radioceras truncatum Spath 1934 ceratite