Where: West Bengal, India (23.6° N, 87.0° E: paleocoordinates 55.5° 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: terrestrial; red shale and mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1957-1959; reposited in the GSI
Primary reference: C. Tripathi and P. P. Satsangi. 1963. Lystrosaurus fauna of the Panchet series of the Raniganj coalfield. Palaeontologia Indica 37:1-65 [H. Sims/J. Camp/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 136560: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 30.11.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Lystrosaurus murrayi Huxley 1859 dicynodont GSI 17843, 17855, 17857, skulls and associated postcrania
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