Where: Adilabad, India (19.3° N, 79.5° E: paleocoordinates 30.8° S, 32.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kota Formation, Toarcian (182.7 - 174.1 Ma)

• Analysing the faunas of the underlying Dharmaram Formation and of the lower and upper units of the Kota Formation and comparing them with faunas from coeval horizons, Bandyopadhyay and Roychowdhury (1996) and Bandyopadhyay and Sengupta (2006) suggested that the Lower Kota Formation has an age ranging from Sinemurian to Pliensbachian, while the age of the upper Kota is Toarcian and may even be extended to Middle Jurassic (?Aalenian)." (Bandyopadhyay et al. 2010)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; limestone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Tasch; reposited in the MCZ

Primary reference: M. B. Mostovski and E. A. Jarzembowski. 2000. The First Brachycerous Flies (Diptera: Rhagionidae) from the Lower Jurassic of Gondwana. Paleontological Journal 34(Suppl 3):S367-S369 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117538: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 23.09.2011, edited by Erin Leckey

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