Where: India (11.1° N, 78.9° E: paleocoordinates 45.4° S, 45.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Karai Formation (Uttattur Group), Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• Upper Utatur Group
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported
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 166274: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.02.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Nautilus huxleyanus" = Cymatoceras huxleyanum, "Nautilus justus" = Eutrephoceras justum
"Nautilus huxleyanus" = Cymatoceras huxleyanum Blanford 1861
"Nautilus justus" = Eutrephoceras justum Blanford 1861 |