Mangali, Wardha valley (Triassic of India)

Where: Maharashtra, India (20.3° N, 79.0° E: paleocoordinates 52.0° S, 47.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Kamthi Formation, Early/Lower Triassic (252.2 - 247.2 Ma)

• "Mangli Beds"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Hislop, Hunter; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: R. Owen. 1855. Descriptions of the cranium of a labyrinthodont reptile (Brachyops laticeps), from Mangali, Central India. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 11:37-39 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 136649: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 30.11.2012

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Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Brachyopidae
Brachyops laticeps n. gen. n. sp.
Brachyops laticeps n. gen. n. sp. Owen 1855 tetrapod
BMNH R4414, holotype skull