PBDB Collection

Varagur village, Trichinopolly Group (Cretaceous of India)

Where: India (11.1° N, 79.1° E: paleocoordinates 42.1° S, 51.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Trichinopolly Group, Senonian (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• Pascoe (1959) has divided the Trichinopolly Stage into lower and upper sub· stages and placed Varagur under the latter indicating Early Senonian age.

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: P. K. Misra and P. Kumar. 1988. Fossil algae from the Cretaceous of Varagur, Tiruchirapalli District, Tamil Nadu. Palaeobotanist 37(1):36-51 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155339: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 09.04.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Florideophyceae
Cryptonemiales - Archaeolithophyllaceae	cf. Archaeolithophyllum sp. cf. Archaeolithophyllum sp. Johnson 1956
Sporolithales - Corallinophycidae	"Archaeolithothamnium lugeoni" = Sporolithon lugeonii "Archaeolithothamnium lugeoni" = Sporolithon lugeonii Pfender 1926
Corallinales - Corallinophycidae	Ethelia sp., "Ethelia alba" = Polystrata alba, Archaeolithothamnium nongsteinensis, Archaeolithothamnium rude, cf. Archaeolithothamnium sp., Archaeolithothamnium parisiense, Amphiroa elliottii, Amphiroa varagurense n. sp., Amphiroa guatemalense, Lithophyllum "sp. A", Lithophyllum "sp. B", cf. Lithophyllum sp., Distichoplax biserialis Ethelia sp. Weber-van Bosse 1921 "Ethelia alba" = Polystrata alba Pfender 1936 Archaeolithothamnium nongsteinensis Archaeolithothamnium rude cf. Archaeolithothamnium sp. Rothpletz 1891 Archaeolithothamnium parisiense Gümbel 1871 Amphiroa elliottii Amphiroa varagurense n. sp. Amphiroa guatemalense Johnson and Kaska 1965 Lithophyllum "sp. A" Philippi 1837 Lithophyllum "sp. B" Philippi 1837 cf. Lithophyllum sp. Philippi 1837 Distichoplax biserialis Dieterich 1927
Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae	Mesophyllum varians, Mesophyllum cf. daviesi Mesophyllum varians Mesophyllum cf. daviesi
Rhodophyceae
- Solenoporaceae	Solenopora filiformis, cf. Solenopora "sp. A", Solenopora sp., Solenopora tiruchiensis, Parachaetetes sp., Parachaetetes asvapatii, Pycnoporidium lobatum Solenopora filiformis cf. Solenopora "sp. A" Dybowski 1877 Solenopora sp. Dybowski 1877 Solenopora tiruchiensis Rao and Gowda 1954 Parachaetetes sp. Deninger 1906 Parachaetetes asvapatii Pia 1936 Pycnoporidium lobatum Yabe and Toyama 1928
Palaeomastigocladus indicus
-	Palaeomastigocladus indicus n. sp. Palaeomastigocladus indicus n. sp. Misra and Kumar 1988

Thaumatoporellales -	Thaumatoporella incrustata Thaumatoporella incrustata
Chlorophyceae
-	cf. Larvaria sp. cf. Larvaria sp. Defrance 1822
Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae	Cylindroporella cf. sugdeni, Neomeris cretaceae Cylindroporella cf. sugdeni Elliott 1957 Neomeris cretaceae
Indopolia satyavanti
-	Indopolia cf. satyavanti Indopolia cf. satyavanti Pia 1936
Cyanophyceae
-	Cayeuxia cf. kurdistanensis Cayeuxia cf. kurdistanensis