Where: Nepal (28.7° N, 83.9° E: paleocoordinates 63.0° S, 79.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: "Syringothyris beds" Member (Marsyandi Formation), Bashkirian (323.2 - 315.2 Ma)

• Early bashkirian, sample HM81

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified shale and lithified, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Garzanti, L. Angiolini, H. Brunton, D. Sciunnach, and M. Balini. 1998. The Bashkirian "Fenestella Shales" and the Moscovian "Chaetetid Shales" of the Tethys Himalaya (South Tibet, Nepal and India). Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 16:119-141 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67715: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.12.2006

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