Maniyara Fort, Bermoti (Oligocene of India)

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

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropods; few bivalves mentioned. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Foraminifera
 Orbitoidacea - Lepidocyclinidae
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
"Campanile pseudoobeliscus" = Cerithium pseudoobeliscus, Cerithium bermotiense n. sp.
"Campanile pseudoobeliscus" = Cerithium pseudoobeliscus Grateloup 1832 cerith snail
Cerithium bermotiense n. sp. Harzhauser et al. 2009 cerith snail
 Cerithioidea - Siliquariidae
Tenagodus granti Sowerby 1840 snail
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
Globularia cf. sanctistephani Cossmann and Peyrot 1919 snail
Ampullinopsis crassatina Lamarck 1804 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
Persististrombus radix Brongniart 1823 true conch
Dilatilabrum sublatissimum d'Orbigny 1852 true conch
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Clavellofusus sp. Grabau 1904 snail
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Lyria (Indolyria) maniyaraensis n. sp. Harzhauser et al. 2009 volute
 Sorbeoconcha - Xenophoridae
Xenophora sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1807 carrier shell
 Opisthobranchia - Haminoeidae
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Aequipecten sp. Fischer 1886 scallop
 Pholadida - Teredinidae
Kuphus sp. Guettard 1770 clam
Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Brissidae
Eupatagus sp. Agassiz 1847 heart urchin
 Clypeasteroida - Clypeasteridae
Clypeaster sp. Lamarck 1801 sand dollar