Also known as Baranda

Where: Kutch, India (23.6° N, 68.7° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 2.7° N, 68.5° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: P12 - P13 foram zone, Harudi Formation, Bartonian to Bartonian (41.0 - 37.7 Ma)

• Berwali series; Formation from Thewissen & Bajpai (2009). The stratigraphy of this sequence is debated extensively. Thewissen & Bajpai (2009) argue for a Lutetian age, but Saraswati et al. (2014) indicate that the vertebrate-bearing strata here are from the P12-P13 foram zones. Moreover, the 87Sr/86Sr ages of 41±2 and 42.5±2 Ma used to argue for Lutetian age are consistent with early Bartonian (41.15-37.78 in Gradstein et al. 2020) and the Bartonian portion of the P12 zone (upper bound of 39.0 Ma in Gradstein et al. 2020).

Environment/lithology: marine; gypsiferous claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

Primary reference: A. Sahni and V.P. Mishra. 1972. A new species of Protocetus (Cetacea) from the Middle Eocene of Kutch, western India. Palaeontology 15(3):490-495 [W. Clyde/L. Gannon/W. Clyde]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 43029: authorized by Will Clyde, entered by Leah Gannon on 09.08.2004, edited by John Alroy

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