Where: Nepal (29.5° N, 83.1° E: paleocoordinates 53.2° S, 61.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nangung Formation (Namlang Group), Wuchiapingian (259.0 - 254.0 Ma)

• Nangung Formation is correlated with the Kalabagh Member of the Salt Range based on brachiopods, which is Wuchiapingian in age. 40 m thick.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, original calcite

Collection methods: bulk,

• 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 43119: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.08.2004