Barbung Khola, locality 67 (Carboniferous of Nepal)

Where: Nepal (28.9° N, 83.4° E: paleocoordinates 49.7° S, 89.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ivorian (353.8 - 345.3 Ma)

• Highest beds of the dark limestone formation, transition into the Permian Quartzite-Sandstone-Shale formation

• group of beds-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 120454: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.11.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Linoproductus pollex n. sp. Waterhouse 1966
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Martiniidae
 Spiriferida - Strophopleuridae
Fusella mucronata Waterhouse 1966
 Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
Syringothyris curzoni Diener 1903
ssp. glaber