Guryul Ravine, Bed 53, Member E2 (Triassic of India)

Where: Kashmir, India (34.1° N, 75.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.6° S, 60.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Anchignathodus typicalis conodont zone, E2 Member (Khunamuh Formation), Griesbachian (252.2 - 251.3 Ma)

• bed 53/54 is 0.8 m thick

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale and lithified limestone

• flaggy shale with intercalated thin continuous limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: K. Nakazawa, Y. Bando, and T. Matsuda. 1980. The Otoceras woodwardi Zone and the time-gap at the Permian-Triassic boundary in east Asia. In T. Kobayashi, R. Toriyama, W. Hashimoto, S. Kanno (eds.), Symposium Tsukuba 1978 21:75-90 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 131944: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.08.2012

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Promyalina "sp. a" Kittl 1903 clam