Garudeshwar (Cretaceous of India)

Also known as Gardeshwar

Where: Gujarat, India (21.9° N, 73.7° E: paleocoordinates 40.4° S, 35.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gardeshwar Formation, Early/Lower Cretaceous (145.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Chandra and R. Tewari. 1991. A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 2: Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Megafossils. 1-81 [B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 229219: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 22.02.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Elatocladus tenerrima Feistmantel 1879 podocarp
Elatocladus plana Seward 1918 podocarp
Sphenopteridae
  - Sphenopteridae
Sphenopteris sp. Sternberg 1825
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Brachyphyllum rhombicum Feistmantel 1877
previously identified as Brachyphyllum mamillare, Brachyphyllum feistmanteli
Pagiophyllum sp. Heer 1881
Pagiophyllum peregrinum Lindley and Hutton 1833
Araucarites cutchensis Feistmantel 1876
Araucarites cf. cutchensis Feistmantel 1876
Araucarites minutus Bose and Maheshwari 1973
Peltaspermopsida
 Peltaspermales - Umkomasiaceae
Pachypteris sp. Brongniart 1828
Cycadeoideopsida
 Cycadeoideales -
Conites sp. Sternberg 1823
Polypodiopsida
  -
Cladophlebis sp. Brongniart 1849
 Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae
? Dictyophyllum sp. Lindley and Hutton 1834
Phlebopteris sp. Brongniart 1836
  - Gleicheniaceae
Gleichenia rewahensis Feistmantel 1882
Pteridopsida
 Filicales -
Rhizomopteris sp. Schimper 1869
Lycopodiopsida
 Lycopodiales - Lycopodiaceae
Lycopodites ghoshii n. sp. Bose et al. 1984 clubmoss