Where: Pakhtia, Afghanistan (33.8° N, 69.2° E: paleocoordinates 36.7° S, 56.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Smithian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)
• Owenites Zone. Fossils from the basal part of the formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, medium, gray limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: B. Kummel and H.K. Erben. 1968. Lower and Middle Triassic cephalopods from Afghanistan. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 129(4-6):95-148 [D. Bottjer/C. Powers/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 44119: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Catherine Powers on 01.09.2004, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Submeekoceras hsuyuchieni Chao 1959 ceratite | |
Clypeoceras yudishthira ceratite | |
Anasibirites kingianus Waagen 1895 ceratite | |
Paranannites aspenensis Hyatt and Smith 1905 ceratite | |
Xenodiscoides cf. falcatus Waagen 1895 ceratite |