Muth MO6 Bed 13B (Triassic to of India)

Where: Himachal Pradesh, India (32.0° N, 78.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.0° S, 60.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mikin Formation, Induan to Induan (252.2 - 247.2 Ma)

• Part of Flemingites beds

Environment/lithology: offshore; shelly/skeletal, gray wackestone

• 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
• gray well oxygenated and bioturbated bioclastic wackestones rich in fragments or complete specimens of large ammonoids (beds 13-16)

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 73236: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 07.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Galfettitidae
""Meekoceras" pulchrum" = Vercherites pulchrum
""Meekoceras" pulchrum" = Vercherites pulchrum Waagen 1895 ammonite
 Ceratitida - Flemingitidae
Rohillites rohilla
 Ceratitida - Aspenitidae
Pseudaspenites muthianus
 Ceratitida - Hedenstroemiidae
"Parakymatites discoides" = Mesohedenstroemia kwangsiana, "Pseudohedenstroemia himalayica" = Hedenstroemia
"Parakymatites discoides" = Mesohedenstroemia kwangsiana Chao 1959 ceratite
"Pseudohedenstroemia himalayica" = Hedenstroemia ceratite
 Ceratitida - Kashmiritidae
Kashmirites sp.
Kashmirites sp. Diener 1913 ceratite