Shalshal Cliff near Rimkin Paiar, Spiriferina Beds (Triassic of India)

Where: India (30.9° N, 80.0° E: paleocoordinates 43.6° S, 62.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Middle Anisian, Spiriferina Beds, 1 m thick

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• dark-grey and black limestones

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: E. Kristan-Tollmann. 1984. Trias-Foraminiferen von Kumaun im Himalaya [Triassic foraminifers from Kumaun, Himalaya]. Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geologischen Gesellschaft 77:263-329 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85465: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.12.2008, edited by Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Norellidae
"Rhynchonella mutabilis" = Nudirostralina mutabilis
"Rhynchonella mutabilis" = Nudirostralina mutabilis Stoliczka 1866
 Athyridida - Diplospirellidae
"Spirigerina stoliczkai" = Spirigerellina stoliczkai
"Spirigerina stoliczkai" = Spirigerellina stoliczkai Bittner 1899
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae
"Spiriferina stracheyi" = Tulungospirifer stracheyi
"Spiriferina stracheyi" = Tulungospirifer stracheyi Salter 1865
Cephalopoda
 Pseudorthocerida - Trematoceratidae
"Orthoceras cf. campanile" = Trematoceras elegans
"Orthoceras cf. campanile" = Trematoceras elegans Muenster 1831
 Ceratitida - Keyserlingitidae
"Keyserlingites dieneri n. sp." = Durgaites dieneri
"Keyserlingites dieneri n. sp." = Durgaites dieneri Mojsisovics 1902 ceratite
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae