Chumik Marpo section, Himachal Pradesh (Permian of India)

Where: India (33.0° N, 77.3° E: paleocoordinates 46.2° S, 60.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gungri Member (Kuling Formation), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• Two meters below the top of the upper Gungri Member of the Kuling Shale

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, nodular, phosphatic limestone

• Small nodules (up to 10 cm in diameter) of dark phosphatic limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by H. Bucher; reposited in the GSC

Primary reference: H. Bucher, W. W. Nassichuk, and C. Spinosa. 1997. A new occurrence of the Upper Permian ammonoid Stacheoceras trimurti Diener from the Himalayas; Himachal Pradesh, India. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 90:599-604 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 132474: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.08.2012

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Vidrioceratidae
"Stacheoceras trimurti" = Stacheoceras (Neostacheoceras) trimurti
"Stacheoceras trimurti" = Stacheoceras (Neostacheoceras) trimurti Diener 1897 ammonite
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferellidae
Elivina tibetana Diener 1897