Takche section, Pin (Ordovician to of India)

Where: Himachal Pradesh, India (32.3° N, 77.4° E: paleocoordinates 21.5° S, 149.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Pin Member (Takche Formation), Ordovician to Ordovician (485.4 - 443.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; siltstone

• "siliciclastic dominated epicontinental to shelf sediments up to the Permian"
• "80 m thick calcareous siltstone horizon"

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: adpression, coalified

Primary reference: H. Shabbar, A. Saxena, O. Tinn, S. Gupta, and K. J. Singh. 2023. Non-calcified warm-water marine macroalgae from the Ordovician strata of Spiti, Tethys Himalaya, India. Palaeoworld 32(3):396-410 [W. Kiessling/A. Watson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 235056: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Alissa Watson on 28.05.2024

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Brachiopods and crinoids are reported as present.
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Chlorophyceae
  - Receptaculitidae
Fisherites sp.
Fisherites sp. Finney and Nitecki 1979
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
? Callisphenus sp.
? Callisphenus sp. Høeg 1938
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales -
Inocladus sp.
Inocladus sp. LoDuca et al. 2021
Mastopora
  -
Mastopora sp.
Mastopora sp. Eichwald 1840
Algites
  -
Algites sp.
Algites sp. Seward 1894