Ningah Colliery, East Raniganj Coalfield (Permian of India)

Also known as Nigha

Where: West Bengal, India (23.7° N, 87.0° E: paleocoordinates 58.3° S, 58.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lopingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)

• "Upper Permian (Raniganj Stage)" (Lakhanpal et al. 1976)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. N. Lakhanpal, H. K. Maheshwari, and N. Awasthi. 1976. A Catalogue of Indian Fossil Plants. 1-318 [B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 225050: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 21.04.2022

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Taxonomic list

Arberiopsida
 Arberiales -
Glossopteris intermedia Feistmantel 1880
Dictyopteridium sporiferum Feistmantel 1881
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
"Dadoxylon ningahense n. sp." = Araucarioxylon ningahense
"Dadoxylon ningahense n. sp." = Araucarioxylon ningahense Maheshwari 1965