Where: India (23.1° N, 69.0° E: paleocoordinates 17.8° N, 68.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chasra Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Chasra Fm, , which regionall overlies the Khari Nadi Fm (Late Oligocene). AGE: Burdigalian, on the basis of foraminiferal and macrofossil biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From a 20 m thick section of laminated siltstones, with intercalated sandstones and claystones.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone

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 111231: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.06.2011

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