Where: Himachal Pradesh, India (32.0° N, 78.0° E: paleocoordinates 43.5° S, 60.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Nammalites pilatoides ammonoid zone, Limestone and Shale Member (Mikin Formation), Smithian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)
• Middle-Late Smithian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale and lithified limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: T. Brühwiler, H. Bucher, and L. Krystyn. 2012. Middle and Late Smithian (Early Triassic) ammonoids from Spiti, India. Special Papers in Palaeontology 88:115-174 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 139698: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 15.02.2013
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Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Steckites brevus Brühwiler et al. 2012 ceratite | |
Nammalites pilatoides Guex 1978 ceratite | |
Paranannites sp. Hyatt and Smith 1905 ceratite |