Muth MO6 Bed 13B (Triassic to of India)
Where: Himachal Pradesh, India (32.0° N, 78.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.0° S, 60.7° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Mikin Formation, Induan to Induan (252.3 - 247.2 Ma)
• Part of Flemingites beds
Environment/lithology: offshore; shelly/skeletal, gray wackestone
• The Himalayan Lower Triassic thus formed part of a large deeper-neritic basin and the Spiti sediments were deposited on wide stable shelf to provide extensive continuity to the beds
• gray well oxygenated and bioturbated bioclastic wackestones rich in fragments or complete specimens of large ammonoids (beds 13-16)
Primary reference: L. Krystyn, O. N. Bhargava, and S. Richoz. 2007. A candidate GSSP for the base of the Olenekian Stage: Mud at Pin Valley; district Lahul & Spiti, Himachal Pradesh (Western Himalaya), India. Albertiana 35:5-20 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 73236: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 07.06.2007