Utatur, Upper Utatur group (Cretaceous of India)

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

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
"Nautilus huxleyanus" = Cymatoceras huxleyanum, "Nautilus justus" = Eutrephoceras justum
"Nautilus huxleyanus" = Cymatoceras huxleyanum Blanford 1861
"Nautilus justus" = Eutrephoceras justum Blanford 1861