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

Where: India (30.9° N, 80.0° E: paleocoordinates 47.0° S, 60.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Griesbachian (252.3 - 251.3 Ma)

• Otoceras beds

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• grey and black limestones with Otoceras and Ophiceras

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 85463: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.12.2008