Where: S.W. Kutch, India (23.5° N, 68.7° E: paleocoordinates 9.3° N, 62.6° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Eocene to Middle Eocene (47.8 - 33.9 Ma)
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; gray, green, yellow claystone and limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: K. K. Tandon. 1971. On the discovery of mammalian and reptilian remains from the middle Eocene rocks of S.W. Kutch, India. Current Science 40(16):436-437 [W. Clyde/J. Finarelli/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 13521: authorized by Will Clyde, entered by John Finarelli on 11.04.2002, edited by John Alroy and Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Foraminifera | |
Reptilia | |
Crocodilus kutchensis n. sp. Tandon 1971 crocodilian | |
Mammalia | |
? Cetacea indet. Brisson 1762 whale | |
Cephalopoda | |
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Bivalvia | |
"Corbula subexarata" = Corbula (Bicorbula) subexarata
"Corbula subexarata" = Corbula (Bicorbula) subexarata d'Archaic and Haime 1854 clam | |
"Meretrix (Callista) yawensis" = Callista, Meretrix sp.
"Meretrix (Callista) yawensis" = Callista venus clam
Meretrix sp. Lamarck 1799 venus clam | |
Unicardium sp. d'Orbigny 1850 clam | |
Anomia sp. Linnaeus 1758 jingle | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Ostracoda | |
Cytherelloidea barkhanensis ostracod | |
Bairdia sp. M'Coy 1844 ostracod | |
Paijenborchella sp. Kingma 1948 ostracod |