Chiddru, LMH-4 (Triassic of Pakistan)

Where: Punjab, Pakistan (32.6° N, 71.8° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° S, 56.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Faunas described within "Local Maximal Horizons", which constitute a small group of samples/beds; LMH4 includes sample Chi59 (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 217496: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 12.02.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Gyronitidae
Ambites atavus Waagen 1895 ceratite