W1370, Karnali Unspecified (Permian of Nepal)

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.

• group of beds-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 43134: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.08.2004

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Strophalosiidae
 Productida - Paucispiniferidae
 Productida - Productidae
"Costiferina alatus" = Costiferina indica, "Dictyoclostidae "indet. A"" = Dictyoclostinae
"Costiferina alatus" = Costiferina indica Waagen 1884
"Dictyoclostidae "indet. A"" = Dictyoclostinae Stehli 1954
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida -
"Spiriferacea indet." = Spiriferoidea
"Spiriferacea indet." = Spiriferoidea King 1846
 Spiriferida - Trigonotretidae
"Neospirifer cf. ambiensis" = Betaneospirifer ambiensis
"Neospirifer cf. ambiensis" = Betaneospirifer ambiensis Waagen 1883
 Spiriferida - Spiriferellidae
Spiriferella rajah Salter 1865
 Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
? Uncinunellina sp. Grabau 1932
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Eotomariidae indet. Wenz 1938 snail