Also known as Reef 4030

Where: Nepal (27.6° N, 85.4° E: paleocoordinates 16.2° S, 158.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chandragiri Formation, Middle Ordovician to Middle Ordovician (470.0 - 443.8 Ma)

• Age poorly constrained. Long-ranging algae used to say Middle to Late Ordovician age

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope or ramp reef; lithified, argillaceous reef rocks

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: recrystallized

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: D. Pas, A.-C. Da Silva, M. R. Dital and F. Boulvain. 2011. Sedimentology of a Mid-Late Ordovician carbonate mud-mound complex from the Katmandu nappe in Central Nepal. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 42(3):452-467 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 118944: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 19.10.2011

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