North above Thabo (Sandstones underlying Kuling shales) (Permian of India)

Where: India (32.1° N, 78.4° E: paleocoordinates 47.5° S, 59.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kuling Group, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Sandstone underlying the black Kuling shales

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H.H. Hayden, A. von Krafft

Primary reference: C. Diener. 1903. Permian fossils of the Central Himalayas. Palaeontologia Indica, Series 15 1(5):1-204 [G. Webster/G. Webster/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 230627: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.07.2023

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
"Spirigera gerardi" = Himathyris gerardi
"Spirigera gerardi" = Himathyris gerardi Diener 1899
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
"Spirifer" distefanii Gemmellaro 1899
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
"Spirifer musakheylensis" = Betaneospirifer moosakhailensis
"Spirifer musakheylensis" = Betaneospirifer moosakhailensis Davidson 1862
=Spirifer fasciger
 Terebratulida - Beecheriidae
"Dielasma latouchei" = Hoskingia latouchei
"Dielasma latouchei" = Hoskingia latouchei Diener 1903