Between Nambikurchi and Utatur, Phosphatscichten (Cretaceous of India)

Where: India (11.1° N, 78.9° E: paleocoordinates 50.4° S, 36.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• The "Phosphatschichten" is apparently the lower part of the Utatur group, below the "beds with Acanthoceras"

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H. Warth

• Repository: possibly Geological Survey of India

Primary reference: E. Spengler. 1910. Untersuchungen über die südindische Kreideformation. Die Nautiliden und Belemniten des Trichinopolydistrikts. Beiträge zur Paläontologie und Geologie Österreich-Ungarns und des Orients 23:125-157 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 166271: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.02.2015

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
"Nautilus (Cymatoceras) pseudonegama n. sp." = Cymatoceras pseudonegama
"Nautilus (Cymatoceras) pseudonegama n. sp." = Cymatoceras pseudonegama Spengler 1910 nautiloid