The Permo-Triassic mass extinction event was one of the most catastrophic events in Earth’s history, with a few disaster taxa that survived this extinction event. During the Early Triassic, ecosystems began to recover as a few surviving lineages diversified to fill the vacant niches. Thus, the study of Early Triassic biota is significant to understand the ecosystem recovery and the evolutionary paths of the surviving clades. In India, the Early Triassic non-marine biota has been recorded within the Panchet and Kamthi formations. In this study, we report an assemblage of vertebrate coprolites within the Early Triassic sandstone beds belonging to the Panchet Formation, India. Based on their external features, presence/absence of biotic inclusions, and chemical nature, the recovered coprolite ichnofossils have been characterised into ichnotaxa and different morphotypes. Several of these coprolites showcase well-preserved inclusions of ganoid fish scales and conchostracan valves, suggesting that the producer(s) practised carnivory with a dominant piscivorous diet. In addition, this study describes Neodiapsida humeri from the same horizon and tentatively attributed to Archosauromorpha. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7BF6A7FA-6D96-4A68-894F-9B4D5457A964

The Permo-Triassic mass extinction event was one of the most catastrophic events in Earth’s history, with a few disaster taxa that survived this extinction event. During the Early Triassic, ecosystems began to recover as a few surviving lineages diversified to fill the vacant niches. Thus, the study of Early Triassic biota is significant to understand the ecosystem recovery and the evolutionary paths of the surviving clades. In India, the Early Triassic non-marine biota has been recorded within the Panchet and Kamthi formations. In this study, we report an assemblage of vertebrate coprolites within the Early Triassic sandstone beds belonging to the Panchet Formation, India. Based on their external features, presence/absence of biotic inclusions, and chemical nature, the recovered coprolite ichnofossils have been characterised into ichnotaxa and different morphotypes. Several of these coprolites showcase well-preserved inclusions of ganoid fish scales and conchostracan valves, suggesting that the producer(s) practised carnivory with a dominant piscivorous diet. In addition, this study describes Neodiapsida humeri from the same horizon and tentatively attributed to Archosauromorpha. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7BF6A7FA-6D96-4A68-894F-9B4D5457A964

An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available from the CCDC and typically includes 3D coordinates, cell parameters, space group, experimental conditions and quality measures.