Unit 11, Bund Vera (Ranikot Series), India - Nuttall (1932): Early/Lower Eocene, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Nummulitidae
Operculina hardiei
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella ranikoti Vredenburg 1928
recombined as Kapalmerella ranikoti
Gastropoda - Neritidae
Velates noetlingi
Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Hercoglossidae
Nautilus deluci d'Archaic 1850
recombined as Deltoidonautilus deluci
Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Rhabdocidaridae
Rhabdocidaris sp. Desor 1855
Echinoidea - Cassiduloida - Neolampadidae
Neocatopygus rotundus Duncas and Sladen 1882
Eurhodia morrisi Haime 1853
Echinoidea - Echinolampadoida - Echinolampadidae
Plesiolampas praelonga
Plesiolampas sp.
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster elongatus
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Linthia indica
Echinoidea - Camarodonta - Glyphocyphidae
Dictyopleurus sp.
see common names

Geography
Country:India
Coordinates: 34.2° North, 74.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:7.2° North, 69.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Ypresian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Early/Lower Eocene
Age range of interval:55.80000 - 48.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Upper Ranikot
Local section:Bund Vera Local bed:Unit 11
Local order:bottom to top
Regional section:Leilan
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Limestone unit (45 ft thick) at top of 365 ft thick section, overlying shale. This is the lowermost Upper Ranikot, and conformably overlies the Lower Ranikot Series, and is unconformably overlain by the Laki Series. The upper 300 ft of this section (including the collection) correspond to Vredenburg's Zone 2. Evidence for the lower Eocene age assignment is not presented, but the enterer suspects a microfaunal basis. Unit numbering is of the enterer's iniative and is numbered from bottom to top, each unit representing each of the author's lithological subdivisions.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal,brown,yellow "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Limestone, light brown to yellow, massive, highly fossiliferous.
Environment:carbonate indet.
Geology comments: Carbonate. No paleoenvironmental data reported.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: Observations assumed to be undertaken by the author. No collections reported.
Taxonomic list comments:Not exhaustive, but representative. Includes, mollusca, echinoids (in some collections) and foraminifera.
Metadata
Database number:42873
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-08-06 10:01:39 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2004-08-06 10:01:39
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11382. D.F.C. Nuttall. 1932. The stratigraphy of the upper Ranikot Series (Lower Eocene) of Sind, India. Records of the Geological Society of India 35:306-313 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]