Where: India (11.2° N, 79.1° E: paleocoordinates 42.1° S, 51.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ariyalur Group, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• Lower Ariyalur group, based on species tabulation on page 150
• 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 166276: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.02.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Carinonautilus ariyalurensis n. gen. n. sp.
Carinonautilus ariyalurensis n. gen. n. sp. Spengler 1910 |