Where: India (34.0° N, 75.0° E: paleocoordinates 43.6° S, 59.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Zewan Formation, Lopingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)
• "Immediately overlying the zone of Protoretepora ampla"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C.S. Middlemiss in 1908
• Repository: Geological Survey of India
Primary reference: C. Diener. 1915. The Anthracolithic faunae of Kashmir, Kanaur and Spiti. Palaeontologia Indica, New Series 5(2):1-135 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 230850: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.07.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
"Productus gangeticus" = Waagenoconcha gangetica, "Productus abichi" = Waagenoconcha (Gruntoconcha) abichi
"Productus gangeticus" = Waagenoconcha gangetica Diener 1897
"Productus abichi" = Waagenoconcha (Gruntoconcha) abichi Waagen 1884 | |
"Productus indicus" = Costiferina indica
"Productus indicus" = Costiferina indica Waagen 1884 | |
"Productus cancrini" = Cancrinella cancrini, "Productus cf. cancriniformis" = Cancrinella cancriniformis
"Productus cancrini" = Cancrinella cancrini de Verneuil 1845
"Productus cf. cancriniformis" = Cancrinella cancriniformis Tschernyschew 1889 | |
Marginifera vihiana n. sp.
Marginifera vihiana n. sp. Diener 1915 | |
"Marginifera himalayensis" = Lamnimargus himalayensis, "Productus gratiosus" = Transennatia gratiosa
"Marginifera himalayensis" = Lamnimargus himalayensis Diener 1899
"Productus gratiosus" = Transennatia gratiosa Waagen 1884 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Dielasma biplex" = Whitspakia biplex
"Dielasma biplex" = Whitspakia biplex Waagen 1882 | |
"Dielasma acutangulum" = Gundarolasmina acutangulum
"Dielasma acutangulum" = Gundarolasmina acutangulum Waagen 1882 | |
Hemiptychina himalayensis Davidson 1862 |