Where: Nepal (28.8° N, 83.7° E: paleocoordinates 29.9° S, 47.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cyrtopleurites bicrenatus ammonoid zone, Tarap Formation, Alaunian (215.6 - 212.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, calcareous sandstone and lithified, sandy marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Krystyn. 1982. Obertriassische Ammonoideen aus dem Zentralnepalesischen Himalaya (Gebiet von Jomsom) [Upper Triassic ammonoids from the central Nepalese Himalaya (Jomsom area)]. Abhandlungen der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 36:1-63 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92141: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.11.2009

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