Where: West Bengal, India (23.6° N, 87.0° E: paleocoordinates 55.5° S, 60.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-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; medium-grained, micaceous, yellow sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S. N. Puri in 1953

• GSI: Geological Survey of India

Primary reference: F. v.o.n. Huene and M. R. Sahni. 1958. On Indobrachops panchetensis gen. et sp. nov. from the Upper Panchets (Lower Trias) of the Raniganj Coalfield. Monograph of the Palaeontological Society of India 2:1-17 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 98624: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 15.10.2010

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