Chichim, Spiti Shale, Spiticeras zone, Himachal Pradesh (Jurassic of India)

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

• grey to black shales

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

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
 Ammonitida - Haploceratidae
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Uhligites sp. Kilian 1913 ammonite
sp. 2
 Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
Spiticeras spitiensis Blanford 1863 ammonite