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 | |
Linoproductus pollex n. sp.
Linoproductus pollex n. sp. Waterhouse 1966 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Eomartiniopsis cf. helenae Sokolskaya 1941 | |
Fusella mucronata Waterhouse 1966 | |
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