Also known as 68 F/11, A.1
Where: Sri Lanka (6.4° N, 81.5° E: paleocoordinates 6.4° N, 81.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Jaffna Limestone Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unknown lithostratigraphic unit (not stated in text) and hence lithostratigraphic relationships are unknown. AGE: Early Miocene, based on faunal correlations with lower Gaj of Pakistan and India.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, white, yellow limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Wayland or Davies (c. 1920). REPOSITORY: Presumably BMNH.
Primary reference: F. E. Eames. 1950. On the ages of certain Upper Tertiary beds of Peninsula India and Ceylon. Geological Magazine 87:233-252 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 77650: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.01.2008, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Foraminifera | |
Anthozoa | |
"Montlivaltia" brevis Duncan 1864 stony coral | |
Bivalvia | |
"Ostrea (Lopha) virleti" = Hyotissa virleti
"Ostrea (Lopha) virleti" = Hyotissa virleti Deshayes 1832 oyster | |
Pinna pachyostraca oyster | |
Spondylus waylandi scallop
Amusium subcorneum scallop | |
Trachycardium picteti cockle | |
"Antigona puerpera" = Periglypta puerpera, ? Macrocallista (Costacallista) pseudoumbonella
"Antigona puerpera" = Periglypta puerpera Linnaeus 1758 venus clam SUBSPECIES: Antigona puepera granosa
? Macrocallista (Costacallista) pseudoumbonella Vredenburg 1928 venus clam | |
Gastropoda | |
"Euspirocrommium oweni" = Pachycrommium oweni
"Euspirocrommium oweni" = Pachycrommium oweni d'Archiac and Haime 1854 snail | |
Conus (Lithoconus) litteratus Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
"Xenophora" sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1807 carrier shell | |
"Cypraea (Lyncina) jenkinsi" = Luria (Basilitrona) jenkinsi, Callistocypraea (Miolyncina) prunum
"Cypraea (Lyncina) jenkinsi" = Luria (Basilitrona) jenkinsi d'Archiac and Haime 1853 cowry
Callistocypraea (Miolyncina) prunum Sowerby 1839 cowry | |
Ptychocerithium archiaci Vredenburg 1928 cerith snail | |
Tectus loryi d'Archaic and Haime 1853 top snail | |
Echinoidea | |
Clypeaster (Paleanthus) depressus sand dollar |