Gaitey, Spiti Shale, Aulacosphinctoides/Paraboliceras zone, Himachal Pradesh (Jurassic of India)
Where: India (32.3° N, 78.0° E: paleocoordinates 32.6° S, 45.9° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Spiti Shale Formation, Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.5 Ma)
• Aulacosphinctoides/Paraboliceras zone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale
• grey to black shales
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 65880: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.09.2006