Khalsi area, Ladakh (Cretaceous to of India)

Where: India (34.3° N, 76.9° E: paleocoordinates 32.3° S, 54.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Khalsi Formation, Aptian to Aptian (125.0 - 93.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; limestone

• non-turbulent, calm reef or reef-like microenvironment

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: B. Prasenjit, F. Sánchez-Beristain, S. R. Mishra, I. Mohd, N. Kumar Swami, M. Bamniya, and S. Singh. 2021. First report of Acanthochaetetes (Porifera: Demospongiae) from the Cretaceous Khalsi Formation, Ladakh Himalaya, India. Journal of Paleontology [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 221660: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 19.08.2021

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Taxonomic list

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Demospongiae
 Hadromerida - Acanthochaetetidae
Acanthochaetetes huauclillensis
Acanthochaetetes huauclillensis Sánchez-Beristain and García-Barrera 2019 demosponge