Aida: Aquitanian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae
Bharatisiren kachchhensis n. gen., n. sp. (Bajpai et al. 1987)
1 specimen
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Sahni and Mishra 1975
LUVP 11172, partial carapace (collection information based on the caption of the figure)
see common names

Geography
Country:India State/province:Kachchh
Coordinates: 23.4° North, 68.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:16.8° North, 67.5° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Aquitanian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Aquitanian
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 20.44000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Khari Nadi
Stratigraphy comments: Aidian Stage
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gypsiferous,brown,gray silty claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: gray to brownish gypsified silty claystone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:58979
Authorizer:M. Uhen, E. Vlachos Enterer:M. Uhen, E. Vlachos
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-03-02 11:05:30 Last modified:2006-03-02 13:08:48
Access level:the public Released:2006-03-02 11:05:30
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
16723. S. Bajpai and D. P. Domning. 1997. A new dugongine sirenian from the early Miocene of India. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(1):219-228 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

11991 A. Sahni and V. P. Mishra. 1975. Lower Tertiary vertebrates from western India. Monograph of the Palaeontological Society of India 3:1-48 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]