Losar, sample 1025, Brayardites compressus beds: Smithian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Aspenitidae
Aspenites acutus Hyatt and Smith 1905
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Melagathiceratidae
Jinyaceras hindostanum (Diener 1897)
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:251.30000 - 247.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mikin Member:Limestone and Shale
Local section:Losar Local bed:5.2 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:139684
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-02-15 20:01:46 Last modified:2016-03-31 18:43:34
Access level:authorizer only Released:2013-05-15 20:01:46
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]