Where: India (23.7° N, 92.7° E: paleocoordinates 16.4° N, 94.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Bhuban Formation (Surma Group), Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Upper Bhuban Fm of the Bhuban Subgroup, Surma Group (Early-Middle Miocene), which presumably overlies the Middle Bhuban Fm and overlain by sediments of the Boka Bil Subgroup (Ganju, 1975). THICKNESS: From bed of about 3 m thickness within section of 9 m in thickness. AGE: Aquitanian-Burdigalian, Early Miocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From near top of section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Reposited in the GSI

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: R. P. Tiwari (unknown date). REPOSITORY: Geological Survey of India (GSI), Pachhunga University College (PUC)

Primary reference: B. P. Tiwari. 2001. Neogene palaeontology of the Surma Group, Mizoram, India. 1 - The Arcoida (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Journal of the Paleontological Society of India 46:147-160 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 72213: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.05.2007

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