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 120444: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.11.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Fusispirifer nitiensis, "Neospirifer moosakhailensis" = Betaneospirifer moosakhailensis
Fusispirifer nitiensis Diener 1897
"Neospirifer moosakhailensis" = Betaneospirifer moosakhailensis Davidson 1862 |