Muth MO4 Bed 11 (Triassic of India)

Where: Himachal Pradesh, India (32.0° N, 78.0° E: paleocoordinates 43.5° S, 60.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mikin Formation, Smithian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• Part of Flemingites beds

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; gray lime mudstone

• The Himalayan Lower Triassic thus formed part of a large deeper-neritic basin and the Spiti sediments were deposited on wide stable shelf to provide extensive continuity to the beds
• dark gray, brownish weathering lime mudstones (beds 10 – 12) with rare thin ammonoid shell concentrations.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Krystyn, O. N. Bhargava, and S. Richoz. 2007. A candidate GSSP for the base of the Olenekian Stage: Mud at Pin Valley; district Lahul & Spiti, Himachal Pradesh (Western Himalaya), India. Albertiana 35:5-20 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 72341: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 01.06.2007, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Galfettitidae
? Vercherites sp.
? Vercherites sp. Brühwiler et al. 2010 ammonite