Where: West Bengal, India (23.7° N, 86.9° E: paleocoordinates 55.4° S, 60.1° 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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; green, white sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P. P. Satsangi in 1964; reposited in the GSI

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• GSI: Geological Survey of India, Calcutta

Primary reference: P. P. Satsangi. 1964. A note on Chasmatosaurus from the Panchet Series of Raniganj Coalfield, India. Current Science 21:651-652 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117187: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 17.09.2011

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