Where: Byans, Nepal (30.1° N, 81.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.7° S, 62.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Kalapani Formation), Fassanian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: blue limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Swiss Academy of Sciences Himalayan expedition in 1936
• Repository: Geological Department, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
Primary reference: A. Jeannet. 1939. Palaeontological identifications, in (Heim & Gansser) Central Himalaya: Geologic Observations of the Swiss Expedition 1936. Mémoires de la Société Helvétique des Sciences Naturelles 1-245 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen/B. Allen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 214670: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 12.10.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
Traumatocrinus sp. Woehrmann 1889 Sea lily | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"? Spirigera hunica" = Spirigerellina hunica
"? Spirigera hunica" = Spirigerellina hunica Bittner 1899 |