Where: Byans, Nepal (30.1° N, 81.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.7° S, 62.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Kalapani Formation), Anisian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: nodular limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Swiss Academy of Sciences Himalayan expedition in 1936

• Repository: Geological Department, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich

Primary reference: A. Jeannet. 1939. Palaeontological identifications, in (Heim & Gansser) Central Himalaya: Geologic Observations of the Swiss Expedition 1936. Mémoires de la Société Helvétique des Sciences Naturelles 1-245 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 214669: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 12.10.2020

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