Where: Nepal (29.5° N, 83.0° E: paleocoordinates 52.2° S, 60.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Nangung Formation (Namlang Group), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)
• Nangung Formation is correlated with the Kalabagh Member of the Salt Range based on brachiopods, which is Wuchiapingian in age.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, original calcite
Collection methods: Some collections were of individual specimens, others as large as possible under the circumstances, with a few localities represented by rock weighing more than 50 kg. Most collections were made from just over 50 measured sections, and are under good stratigraphic control.
Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse. 1978. Permian Brachiopoda and Mollusca from north-west Nepal. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 160(1-6):1-175 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 43128: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
"Marginifera typica" = Marginifera (Marginifera) typica
"Marginifera typica" = Marginifera (Marginifera) typica Waagen 1884 | |
Lamnimargus himalayensis Diener 1899 | |
? Echinauris sp. Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
? Chonetella sp. Waagen 1884 | |
"Costiferina alatus" = Costiferina indica
"Costiferina alatus" = Costiferina indica Waagen 1884 | |
? Demonedys "n. sp." Grant 1976 | |
"Sulcataria pentagonalis n. sp." = Dyoros pentagonalis
"Sulcataria pentagonalis n. sp." = Dyoros pentagonalis Waterhouse 1978 | |
Orthotetes bisulcatus Waterhouse 1966 | |
? Arctitreta sp. Whitfield 1908 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Pteroplecta sp. Waterhouse 1978 | |
Martiniopsis sp. Waagen 1883 | |
Spiriferella rajah Salter 1865 | |
"Neospirifer cf. ambiensis" = Betaneospirifer ambiensis
"Neospirifer cf. ambiensis" = Betaneospirifer ambiensis Waagen 1883 | |
Elythidae indet. Fredericks 1924 | |
Cleiothyridina subexpansa Waagen 1883 | |
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? Rhynchopora sp. King 1865 | |
Stenoscisma sp. Conrad 1839 |