Nammal Nala, LMH-11 (Triassic of Pakistan)

Where: Punjab, Pakistan (32.7° N, 71.8° E: paleocoordinates 40.4° S, 56.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ceratite Marls Formation, Dienerian (250.5 - 251.2 Ma)

• Faunas described within "Local Maximal Horizons", which constitute a small group of samples/beds; LMH11 includes samples Nam92, 100, 301, 344, 501, 503 (Ware et al. 2018)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: concretionary limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository - Paläontologisches Institut und Museum der Universität Zürich, Switzerland (PIMUZ)

Primary reference: D. Ware, H. Bucher, T. Brühwiler, E. Schneebeli-Hermann, P. A. Hochuli, G. Roohi, K. Ur-Rehman and A. Yaseen. 2018. Griesbachian and Dienerian (Early Triassic) ammonoids from the Salt Range, Pakistan. Fossils and Strata 63:13-175 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 217487: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 12.02.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Gyronitidae
Ambites bjerageri n. sp., "Ambites cf. impressus" = Ambites discus, Ambites lilangensis
Ambites bjerageri n. sp. Ware and Bucher 2018 ceratite
PIMUZ30351 (holotype)
"Ambites cf. impressus" = Ambites discus Waagen 1895 ceratite
Ambites lilangensis Krafft 1909 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Proptychitidae
Proptychites cf. pagei Ware et al. 2011 ceratite
Proptychites lawrencianus de Koninck 1863 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Mullericeratidae
Mullericeras spitiense Krafft 1909 ceratite
Mullericeras niazii n. sp. Ware and Bucher 2018 ceratite
PIMUZ30464 (holotype)