Chaasra Fm. (Miocene of India)

Where: Gujarat, India (23.4° N, 68.8° E: paleocoordinates 18.1° N, 68.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; silty claystone and argillaceous limestone

• Silty shales and impure Limestones

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: A. K. Guha. 2013. Tertiary bryozoa from Western Kachchh, Gujarat - A Review. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 58(1):3-15 [L. Liow/F. Franeck]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 177172: authorized by Lee Hsiang Liow, entered by Franziska Franeck on 22.03.2016

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Taxonomic list

Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Cothurnicellidae
Crepis gurjarensis Guha and Gopikrishna 2005
 Cheilostomata - Mamilloporidae
Anoteropora rajnathi Tewari et al. 1958
 Cheilostomata - Steginoporellidae
Steginoporella bhujensis Guha and Gipikrishna 2007
 Cheilostomata - Calloporidae
Reptoporina chhasraensis Guha and Gopikrishna 2007
Planicellaria naliyaensis Guha and Gopikrishna 2007
 Cheilostomata - Quadricellariidae
Nellia quadrangularis Tewari and Srivastava 1967
Nellia kutchensis Tewari and Srivastava 1967
 Cheilostomata - Thalamoporellidae
Thalamoporella vinjhanensis Guha and Gopikrishna 2004
Thalamoporella kachchhensis Guha and Gopikrishna 2004
Thalamoporella setosa Guha and Gopikrishna 2004
 Cheilostomata - Membraniporidae
Discoporella misrai Tewari et al. 1958
 Cheilostomata - Smittinidae
Parasmittina gujaratica Guha and Gopikrishna 2007
 Cheilostomata - Bitectiporidae
Schizomavella decorata Guha and Gopikrishna 2007
 Cheilostomata - Stomachetosellidae
Cigclisula ramparensis Guha and Gopikrishna 2007
 Cheilostomata - Lanceoporidae
Calyptotheca aviculifera Guha and Gopikrishna 2007
 Cheilostomata - Margarettidae
Margaretta fusiformis Guha and Gopikrishna 2007
 Cheilostomata - Phidoloporidae
Reteporella quadripora Guha and Gopikrishna 2007
 Cheilostomata - Celleporidae
Turbicellepora rostrata Guha and Gopikrishna 2007