Where: India (32.3° N, 78.0° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 37.6° S, 60.7° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Spiti Shale Formation, Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)
• Spiticeras zone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. B. Pathak. 1997. Ammonoid stratigraphy of the Spiti Shale Formation in Spiti Himalaya, India. Journal of the Geological Society of India 50:191-200 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 65890: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Paraboliceratoides sp., Kossmatia desmidoptychus, Kossmatia tenuistriata, Paraboliceras haugi, Paraboliceras sabineanus, Paraboliceras cf. spitiensis, Paraboliceras griesbachi
Paraboliceratoides sp. ammonite
Kossmatia desmidoptychus ammonite
Kossmatia tenuistriata ammonite
Paraboliceras haugi ammonite
Paraboliceras sabineanus ammonite
Paraboliceras cf. spitiensis ammonite
Paraboliceras griesbachi ammonite | |
Hildoglochiceras kobelli ammonite | |
Gymnodiscoceras griesbachi ammonite
Uhligites aff. adunta ammonite | |
Spiticeras guttatus ammonite
Spiticeras subspitiensis ammonite
Spiticeras spitiensis Blanford 1863 ammonite |