Lissar Valley (Triassic of India)

Where: India (30.4° N, 80.4° E: paleocoordinates 37.6° S, 56.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• Lower Carnian, Trachyceras aon Beds

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• dark-grey limestones

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: E. Kristan-Tollmann. 1984. Trias-Foraminiferen von Kumaun im Himalaya [Triassic foraminifers from Kumaun, Himalaya]. Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geologischen Gesellschaft 77:263-329 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85468: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.12.2008, edited by Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Ptychitidae
Ptychites posthumus n. sp.
Ptychites posthumus n. sp. von Mojsisovics 1896 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Joannitidae
Joannites cf. cymbiformis
Joannites cf. cymbiformis Wulfen 1793 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Trachyceratidae
Trachyceras (Protrachyceras) ralphuanum n. sp., Arpadites lissarensis n. sp.
Trachyceras (Protrachyceras) ralphuanum n. sp. von Mojsisovics 1896 ceratite
Arpadites lissarensis n. sp. von Mojsisovics 1896 ceratite
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Gaudryina triadica
 Fusulinina - Pachyphloiidae
Pachyphloia lanceolata
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Nubeculariidae
Nodophthalmidium vujisici
Nodosariata
 Robertinida - Duostominidae
Diplotremina astrofimbriata, Duostomina rotundata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
? Vaginulina sp., Nodosaria elabugae
? Vaginulina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Lenticulina cf. insecta
Foraminifera
 Involutinina - Involutinidae
Angulodiscus tenuis, Angulodiscus fragilis