Where: India (23.5° N, 68.6° E: paleocoordinates 15.6° N, 66.7° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Coral Limestone Member (Maniyara Fort Formation), Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Harzhauser et al in 2008; reposited in the NHMW
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• COLLECTORS: M. Harzhauser and colleagues, c. 2007-2008. REPOSITORY: NHMW, Vienna.
Primary reference: M. Harzhauser, M. Euter, W. E. Piller, B. Berning, A. Kroh and O. Mandic. 2009. Oligocene and Early Miocene gastropods from Kutch (NW India) document an early biogeographic switch from Western Tethys to Indo-Pacific. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 83:333-372 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 111232: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.06.2011, edited by Mihaela Krause
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Anthozoa | |
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral | |
Bivalvia | |
Aequipecten sp. Fischer 1886 scallop | |
Kuphus sp. Guettard 1770 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Ampullinopsis crassatina Lamarck 1804 snail
Globularia cf. sanctistephani Cossmann and Peyrot 1919 snail | |
Persististrombus radix Brongniart 1823 true conch
Dilatilabrum sublatissimum d'Orbigny 1852 true conch | |
Lyria (Indolyria) maniyaraensis n. sp. Harzhauser et al. 2009 volute | |
Clavellofusus sp. Grabau 1904 snail | |
Xenophora sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1807 carrier shell
Stellaria cf. oligostriata carrier shell | |
Tenagodus granti Sowerby 1840 snail | |
Cerithium bermotiense n. sp., "Campanile pseudoobeliscus" = Cerithium pseudoobeliscus
Cerithium bermotiense n. sp. Harzhauser et al. 2009 cerith snail
"Campanile pseudoobeliscus" = Cerithium pseudoobeliscus Grateloup 1832 cerith snail | |
Echinoidea | |
Clypeaster sp. Lamarck 1801 sand dollar | |
Eupatagus sp. Agassiz 1847 heart urchin |