List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anomodontia
- Lystrosauridae
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Lystrosaurus orientalis
(Huxley 1865)
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12 specimens | |||||||||
synonym of Lystrosaurus murrayi | ||||||||||
GSI 17815, 17817, 17840, 17821, 17822, 17842, 17825, 17826, 17829, 17830, 17833, 17836 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | India | State/province: | West Bengal |
Coordinates: | 23.7° North, 86.9° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 55.4° South, 60.1° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Panchet | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Panchet Formation yields a typical earliest Triassic vertebrate assemblage that can be correlated with the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone of South Africa |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | survey of museum collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Museum repositories: | GSI | ||
Collectors: | S. N. Puri | Collection dates: | 1953 |
Metadata
Database number: | 136552 | ||
Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Butler |
Modifier: | R. Butler | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2012-11-30 00:09:59 | Last modified: | 2012-11-29 07:23:29 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-11-30 00:09:59 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
34028. | C. Tripathi. 1961. On the remains of Lystrosaurus from the Panchets of the Raniganj Coalfield. Records of the Geological Survey of India 89:407-426 [R. Butler/R. Butler] |