Navania Limestone (Cretaceous to of India)

Where: Gujarat, India (22.6° N, 71.5° E: paleocoordinates 33.7° S, 45.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wadhwan Formation, Cenomanian to Cenomanian (100.5 - 89.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; argillaceous limestone

• an argillaceous limestone weathering into white marly material

Primary reference: R. M. Badve. 1978. Occurrence of Pycnodonte (Phygraea) in the Navania Limestone, Wadhwan Formation, Saurashtra and its ecological significance. Journal of The Geological Society of India 19(4):171-173 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 46396: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 12.01.2005

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster sp. Agassiz and Desor 1847 heart urchin
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae