PN4, Peak 17315, Marsyangdi, Manang area (Permian of Nepal)

Where: Nepal (28.7° N, 83.9° E: paleocoordinates 51.4° S, 62.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ngawal Member (Senja Formation), Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• top of the member; Biplatyconcha grandis zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siltstone and lithified shale

• black siltstone with shale, sandstone and dolomite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. B. Waterhouse and Z.Q. Chen. 2006. Stratigraphy and Mollusca of the Late Permian Senja Formation, Manang area, Nepal Himalaya. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 275(1-3):55-96 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62450: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae
Euphemitinae indet.
Euphemitinae indet. Knight 1956 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Retispira puchenpraensis n. sp.
Retispira puchenpraensis n. sp. Waterhouse and Chen 2006 snail
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Atomodesmatidae
Atomodesma elongatum
Atomodesma elongatum Wanner 1922 clam