Pin Fm., Pin Valley, near Farka Muth village, unit P/13 (Ordovician of India)

Where: India (32.0° N, 78.1° E: paleocoordinates 22.6° S, 148.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Amorphognathus ordovicicus conodont zone, Pin Formation, Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; sandy limestone

• The uppermost beds of P ⁄ 13 consist of reworked sediments (with an assumed hiatus at the boundary with P ⁄ 14). Unit P ⁄ 13 in particular consists of a highly diverse carbonate succession including a rich reef-related fauna and flora.
• limestone and nodular limestone beds

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: T. J. Suttner and A. Ernst. 2007. Upper Ordovician bryozoans of the Pin Formation (Spiti Valley, Northern India). Palaeontology 50(6):1485-1518 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144041: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 29.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata - Trematoporidae
Trematopora minima
 Trepostomata - Heterotrypidae
Dekayia sp.
Dekayia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851
 Fenestrata - Chasmatoporidae
Enallopora ulrichi
 Fenestrata - Ralfinidae
? Ralfina originalis
 Fenestrata -
Pinocladia triangulata
Pinocladia triangulata Suttner and Ernst 2007
 Esthonioporata - Revalotrypidae
? Revalotrypa sp.
? Revalotrypa sp. Bassler 1952
 Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae
Prasopora yushanensis
 Trepostomida - Atactotoechidae
Cyphotrypa yak
 Cystoporata - Ceramoporidae
Ceramopora sp.
Ceramopora sp. Hall 1851
 Cyclostomata - Corynotrypidae
Corynotrypa sp.
Corynotrypa sp. Bassler 1911
  - Phylloporinidae
? Pesnastylus vesiculosum
 Cryptostomata - Escharoporidae
Oanduellina himalayaica
 Cryptostomata - Ptilodictyidae
Ptilodictya exiliformis, Cladodictya markhensis, Phaenopora ordinarius, Phaenopora "sp. 1", Phaenopora "sp. 2", Insignia "sp. 1", Insignia "sp. 2", Stellatodictya plana
Phaenopora "sp. 1" Hall 1851
Phaenopora "sp. 2" Hall 1851
 Cryptostomata - Arthrostylidae
Ulrichostylus bhargavai
 Cryptostomata - Rhinoporidae
Lichenalia concentrica