St. Martin's Island (Miocene of Bangladesh)
Where: Bangladesh (20.6° N, 92.3° E: paleocoordinates 14.1° N, 93.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Tipam Formation, Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; medium-grained, glauconitic, gray sandstone
• restricted to estuary/tidal channels and very shallow, tidal flat to tidal marsh
• medium- to fine- grained gray quartz sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Primary reference: J. S. Anderson and L. G. Barnes. 2000. A Fossil Miocene Whale from the Tipam Sandstone, St. Martin's Island. Oryctos 3:79-84 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 80120: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 04.04.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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Mammalia | |
? Cetotheriidae indet. Brandt 1872 whale |