Also known as Veraghoor
Where: Tamil Nadu, India (11.3° N, 79.0° E: paleocoordinates 42.0° S, 51.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ariyalur Group, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by H. Warth
• Repository: possibly Geological Survey of India
Primary reference: L. T. Groves, H. F. Filkorn, and J. M. Alderson. 2011. A New Species Of Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Cypraeid Gastropod, Santa Ana Mountains, Southern California and New Records of California Cretaceous Cypraeids. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 110(3):177-183 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 179034: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 26.05.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Cypraea cunliffei" = Bernaya (Protocypraea) cunliffei, "Erato veraghoorensis" = Bernaya (Protocypraea) veraghoorensis
"Cypraea cunliffei" = Bernaya (Protocypraea) cunliffei Forbes 1846 cowry
"Erato veraghoorensis" = Bernaya (Protocypraea) veraghoorensis Stoliczka 1867 cowry |