Where: Kachchh, India (23.4° N, 68.8° E: paleocoordinates 16.8° N, 67.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Khari Nadi Formation, Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)
• Aidian Stage
Environment/lithology: marine; gypsiferous, brown, gray, silty claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: S. Bajpai and D. P. Domning. 1997. A new dugongine sirenian from the early Miocene of India. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(1):219-228 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 58979: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.03.2006, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Mammalia | |
Bharatisiren kachchhensis n. gen. n. sp.
Bharatisiren kachchhensis n. gen. n. sp. Bajpai et al. 1987 dugong | |
| Reptilia | |
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Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle LUVP 11172, partial carapace (collection information based on the caption of the figure)
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