Raniganj: Induan - Smithian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anomodontia - Lystrosauridae
Lystrosaurus maccaigi Seeley 1898
Cosgriff et al. 1982
GSI 17866, partial skull
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Temnospondyli indet. (von Zittel 1887)
1 specimen
"Labyrinthodont" mandible
    = Pachygonia incurvata Huxley 1865
Lydekker 1882
nomen dubium belonging to Stereospondyli
see common names

Geography
Country:India State/province:West Bengal
Coordinates: 23.6° North, 87.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:55.6° South, 60.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Early/Lower Triassic
10 m.y. bin:Triassic 1
Key time interval:Induan - Smithian
Age range of interval:251.90200 - 248.90000 m.y. ago
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:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:174085
Authorizer:R. Butler, A. Dunhill Enterer:R. Butler, B. Allen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2015-10-28 04:32:57 Last modified:2015-10-28 04:32:57
Access level:the public Released:2015-10-28 04:32:57
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

56790. R. Lydekker. 1881. Note on some Gondwana vertebrates. Records of the Geological Survey of India 14:174-178 [R. Butler/R. Butler]

Secondary references:

75385% 30000J. W. Cosgriff, W. R. Hammer, and W. J. Ryan. 1982. The Pangaean reptile, Lystrosaurus maccaigi, in the Lower Triassic of Antarctica. Journal of Paleontology 56(2):371-385 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/R. Whatley]
56792 R. Lydekker. 1882. On some Gondwana labyrinthodonts. Records of the Geological Survey of India 15:24-28 [R. Butler/R. Butler]