Zozar Fm, Zanskar Region, West Himalaya, India (Triassic of India)

Also known as HP19-C(2), HP19-C(3), HP20-2(1), HP19-8B(5), HP19-2(6), HP10-10(1), Hp19-10(3), HP20-10B, HP19-A(1)(2)(7)(8), HP19-B(2)(8), HP19-2, Hp19-8A(5), HP19-10(4)(5)(9)

Where: India (33.3° N, 77.7° E: paleocoordinates 34.0° S, 57.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Zozar Formation, Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lenticular packstone

• Poorly bedded, often lenticular, and graded bioclastic packstones to grainstones, in beds 20 to 50 cm thick.

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: Specimens at the Department of Earth Sciences, Geology-Paleontology Section, University of Milano, Italy

Primary reference: P. Schaefer and E. Fois. 1987. Systematics and evolution of Triassic Bryozoa. Geologica et Palaeontologica 21:173-225 [D. Bottjer/C. Powers/C. Jamet]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 32764: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Catherine Powers on 14.07.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Associated organisms are brachiopods, gastropods, crinoids, and rarer solenoporacean algae
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Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Dyscritellidae
Dyscritella cf. pauca, Dyscritella rhomboporata n. sp., Dyscritella sp. 2
 Trepostomida - Arcticoporidae
Zozariella stellata n. gen. n. sp.
Zozariella stellata n. gen. n. sp. Schafer and Fois 1987
 Rhabdomesida - Nikiforovellidae
Tebitopora orientalis