Harudi village (Eocene of India)

Where: Kutch, India (23.5° N, 68.7° E: paleocoordinates 5.9° N, 61.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Harudi Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• lower Middle Eocene

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: K. Halder and P. Sinha. 2014. Some Eocene Cerithioids (Gastropoda, Mollusca) from Kutch, Western India, and Their Bearing on Palaeobiogeography of the Indian Subcontinent. Paleontology Journal [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 171409: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 10.07.2015

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
Potamides archiaci n. sp. Halder and Sinha 2014 horn snail
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Cerithium harudiensis n. sp. Halder and Sinha 2014 cerith snail
 Cerithioidea - Siliquariidae
? Tenagodus sowerbyi n. sp. Halder and Sinha 2014 snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Palmerella kutchensis n. sp. Halder and Sinha 2014 turret shell
? Haustator punjabensis Eames 1952 turret shell
"Palmerella ranikoti" = Kapalmerella ranikoti Vredenburg 1928 turret shell