near Varagur, Tamil Nadu District (Cretaceous of India)

Also known as Veraghoor

Where: Tamil Nadu, India (11.3° N, 79.0° E: paleocoordinates 42.0° S, 51.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ariyalur Group, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• 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: L. T. Groves, H. F. Filkorn, and J. M. Alderson. 2011. A New Species Of Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Cypraeid Gastropod, Santa Ana Mountains, Southern California and New Records of California Cretaceous Cypraeids. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 110(3):177-183 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179034: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 26.05.2016

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
"Erato veraghoorensis" = Bernaya (Protocypraea) veraghoorensis, "Cypraea cunliffei" = Bernaya (Protocypraea) cunliffei
"Erato veraghoorensis" = Bernaya (Protocypraea) veraghoorensis Stoliczka 1867 cowry
"Cypraea cunliffei" = Bernaya (Protocypraea) cunliffei Forbes 1846 cowry