Where: India (25.2° N, 89.3° E: paleocoordinates 16.1° N, 87.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Baghmara Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Assumed by Hendy (2007) to originate from the Baghmara Fm, which regionally conformably underlies the Chengapara Fm (Burdigalian). AGE: Aquitaian-Burdigalian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; poorly lithified, fine-grained, shelly/skeletal marl and lithified, concretionary sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collected by Mukerjee in 1924; reposited in the BMNH

• COLLECTORS: P.N. Mukerjee (1924). REPOSITORY: British Museum of Natural History.

Primary reference: P. N. Mukerjee. 1939. Fossil fauna from the Tertiary of Garo Hills, Assam. Palaeontologia Indica 28(1):1-101 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76574: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.11.2007

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