ammonites
Barus North Spur, Member B1, Bed 18 (Permian of India)

Where: Kashmir, India (34.0° N, 75.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.6° S, 59.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: B Member (Zewan Formation), Wuchiapingian (259.0 - 254.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, bioturbated, micaceous shale

• Micaceous shale, more or less developed in slaty cleavage, partly finely laminated by sandy intercalation and sometimes strongly bioturbated.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. Shimizu. 1981. Upper Permian brachiopod fossils from Guryul Ravine and the spur three kilometres north of Barus. The Upper Permian and Lower Triassic faunas of Kashmir. Palaeontologia Indica New Series 46:66-85 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 82586: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.07.2008

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