Losar, sample 1005, Brayardites compressus beds: Smithian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Hedenstroemiidae
Pseudosageceras multilobatum Noetling 1905
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Aspenitidae
Pseudaspenites cf. layeriformis (Welter 1922)
Aspenites acutus Hyatt and Smith 1905
(1 measurement)
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Flemingitidae
Hermannites rursiradiatus Brühwiler et al. 2012
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Melagathiceratidae
Jinyaceras hindostanum (Diener 1897)
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Arctoceratidae
Brayardites compressus Brühwiler et al. 2010
in table and text (1 measurement)
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Proptychitidae
Xiaoqiaoceras involutus Brayard and Bucher 2008
(2 measurements)
Tulongites xiaoqiaoi Brühwiler et al. 2010
Cephalopoda - Phylloceratida - Galfettitidae
? Galfettites sp. Brayard and Bucher 2008
(2 measurements)
    = Pseudogalfettites sp. Smyshlyaeva and Zakharov 2021
Smyshlyaeva and Zakharov 2021
Urdyceras tulongensis Brühwiler et al. 2010
see common names

Geography
Country:India State/province:Himachal Pradesh
Coordinates: 32.4° North, 77.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.0° South, 61.1° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:4100 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Early/Lower Triassic
Stage:Olenekian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 1
Key time interval:Smithian Ammonoid zone: Brayardites compressus
Age range of interval:251.20000 - 248.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mikin Member:Limestone and Shale
Local section:Losar Local bed:7.1 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Middle-Late Smithian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Secondary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Dark shale with intercalated limestone, nodular limestone and diagenetic nodules
Environment:offshore indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:139682
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, M. Clapham Enterer:M. Krause, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-02-15 20:01:13 Last modified:2016-03-31 18:43:07
Access level:authorizer only Released:2013-05-15 20:01:13
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

44904. T. Brühwiler, H. Bucher, and L. Krystyn. 2012. Middle and Late Smithian (Early Triassic) ammonoids from Spiti, India. Special Papers in Palaeontology 88:115-174 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]

Secondary references:

78359 O. P. Smyshlyaeva and Y. D. Zakharov. 2021. New findings of Early Triassic representatives of the suborders Ussuritina and Paraceltitina (Ammonoidea) from South Primorye. Paleontological Journal 55:489-496 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]