Where: Himachal Pradesh, India (32.0° N, 78.0° E: paleocoordinates 45.0° S, 60.3° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Limestone Member (Mikin Formation), Dienerian (250.5 - 251.2 Ma)
• Faunas described within "Local Maximal Horizons", which constitute a small group of samples/beds; LMH4 includes sample MUD52 (Ware et al. 2018)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone and shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 2008-9
• Repository - Paläontologisches Institut und Museum der Universität Zürich, Switzerland (PIMUZ)
Primary reference: D. Ware, H. Bucher, T. Brühwiler and L. Krystyn. 2018. Dienerian (Early Triassic) ammonoids from Spiti, Himachal Pradesh, India. Fossils and Strata 63:179-241 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 217564: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 15.02.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Ghazalaites roohii Ware and Bucher 2018 ceratite | |
Gyronites bullatus n. sp., Gyronites frequens
Gyronites frequens Waagen 1895 ceratite | |
Dunedinites cf. magnumbilicatus Kiparisova 1961 ceratite
Proptychites oldhamianus Waagen 1895 ceratite | |
Ussuridiscus ensanus Krafft 1909 ceratite |