Where: Nepal (28.9° N, 83.4° E: paleocoordinates 50.9° S, 61.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Senja Formation, Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• A layer of dark limestone of the upper beds of the Permian (15 m below the Lower Triassic)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Gerhard Fuchs in 1963

Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1966. Lower Carboniferous and Upper Permian Brachiopods from Nepal. Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 12:5-99 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120443: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.11.2011

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