Kotal-e-Tera Pass, Pakhtia Province, Collection A3 (Triassic of Afghanistan)

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

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Arctoceratidae
Submeekoceras hsuyuchieni Chao 1959 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Proptychitidae
 Ceratitida - Prionitidae
Anasibirites kingianus Waagen 1895 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Melagathiceratidae
Paranannites aspenensis Hyatt and Smith 1905 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Flemingitidae
Xenodiscoides cf. falcatus Waagen 1895 ceratite