Where: Sri Lanka (8.3° N, 79.8° E: paleocoordinates 2.9° N, 77.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Malu Deposit Member (Jaffna Formation), Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; argillaceous conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float),

• Description of vertebrate fossils found in beds originally thought to contain only invertebrates.

Primary reference: P.E.P. Deraniyagala. 1937. Some Miocene fishes from Ceylon. Ceylon Journal of Science 20:355-367 [W. Clyde/L. Gannon/L. Gannon]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 13449: authorized by Will Clyde, entered by John Finarelli on 21.03.2002, edited by Leah Gannon and Mark Uhen

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