S bank Damodar River near Madhukuna Railbridge (Triassic to of India)

Where: West Bengal, India (23.6° 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: channel lag; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1992-1993

• ISI: Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

Primary reference: A. M. Yates and D. P. Sengupta. 2002. A lapillopsid temnospondyl from the Early Triassic of India. Alcheringa 26:201-208 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 136566: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 30.11.2012

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Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Lapillopsidae
Manubrantlia khaki n. gen. n. sp.
Manubrantlia khaki n. gen. n. sp. Yates and Sengupta 2002 tetrapod
ISI A 57, mandible