Pin Valley, Spiti region, upper Gechang Formation (Permian of India)

Where: India (32.0° N, 78.1° E: paleocoordinates 47.3° S, 59.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Gechang Formation (Kuling Group), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• topmost ferruginous arenites and upper brachiopod-rich beds of Gechang Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

• hybrid (phosphatic to glauconitic) arenites

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: S. Sakagami, D. Sciunnach, and E. Garzanti. 2006. Late Paleozoic and Triassic bryozoans from the Tethys Himalaya (N India, Nepal and S Tibet). Facies 52:279-298 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61135: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.05.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Stenolaemata
 Cystoporida - Sulcoreteporidae
Sulcoretepora sp.
 Trepostomida - Dyscritellidae
Dyscritella sp.
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
? Polypora sp.
 Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
Rhombopora sp.
Rhombopora sp. Meek 1872