Where: India (32.3° N, 78.0° E: paleocoordinates 30.6° S, 45.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Spiti Shale Formation, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• Pachysphinctes zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. B. Pathak. 1997. Ammonoid stratigraphy of the Spiti Shale Formation in Spiti Himalaya, India. Journal of the Geological Society of India 50:191-200 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 65879: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.09.2006

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