Near Senthamangalam (Cretaceous of India)

Also known as Near Serdamangulam

Where: Tamil Nadu, India (11.3° N, 78.2° E: paleocoordinates 44.1° S, 45.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kossmaticeras theobaldianum ammonoid zone, Anaipadi Formation (Trichinopoly Group), Coniacian (89.8 - 86.3 Ma)

• Unnamed formation: c'mon guys, you invented civilization twice, name your rock units!!!! Mancinelli, Chiocchini & Coccia (2003) note that the gastropod bearing beds from Cenomanian rocks in sections in this area are at the very base of the Cenomanian, in the lowest Cenomanian foram zone.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous siltstone and marl

• Calcareous siltstone & marl are common throughout; those would be the most probable rocks for a cypraeoid.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: L. T. Groves. 1994. Jurassic and Cretaceous cypraeacean biogeography and paleontology, with an annotated list of the species. The Cowry 1(2):25-41 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180663: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 26.07.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
"Gisortia coromandelica" = Bernaya (Bernaya) coromandelica
"Gisortia coromandelica" = Bernaya (Bernaya) coromandelica Vredenburg 1920 cowry