Where: West Bengal, India (23.6° N, 86.9° E: paleocoordinates 55.4° S, 60.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Panchet Formation, Induan to Induan (252.2 - 247.2 Ma)

• Panchet Formation yields a typical earliest Triassic vertebrate assemblage that can be correlated with the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone of South Africa

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; conglomeratic sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Tween, Blanford in 1860

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: W. T. Blanford. 1865. On the manner of occurrence of the reptilian remains found in the Panchet beds of the Raniganj coal-field, and on the probable conditions existing at the time when these rocks were deposited. Palaeontologia Indica 4:i-iii [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 117188: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 17.09.2011, edited by Bethany Allen

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