Shalshal Cliff near Rimkin Paiar, Ptychites Beds (Triassic of India)

Where: India (30.9° N, 80.0° E: paleocoordinates 43.6° S, 62.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Upper Anisian, Ptychites Beds, 6 m thick

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, black limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: E. Kristan-Tollmann. 1984. Trias-Foraminiferen von Kumaun im Himalaya [Triassic foraminifers from Kumaun, Himalaya]. Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geologischen Gesellschaft 77:263-329 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85466: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.12.2008

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Taxonomic list

Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Nubeculariidae
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Ceratitidae
Ceratites thuilleri Oppel 1863 ceratite
Crinoidea
 Roveacrinida - Axicrinidae
Axicrinus sp. Kristan-Tollmann 1977 Sea lily