Where: Gujarat, India (21.3° N, 73.1° E: paleocoordinates 4.3° S, 63.1° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Cambay Shale Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• Situated about 3-4 m below Lignite seam 1
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; lenticular sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: T. Smith, K. Kumar, R. S. Rana, A. Folie, F. Solé, C. Noiret, T. Steeman, A. Sahni, and K. D. Rose. 2016. New early Eocene vertebrate assemblage from western India reveals a mixed fauna of European and Gondwana affinities. Geoscience Frontiers 7(6):969-1001 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 180566: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 21.07.2016, edited by Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Palaeophis vastaniensis Bajpai and Head 2008 snake WIF/A 2349, WIF/A 2350, WIF/A 2356-WIF/A 2360, GU/RSR/TAD 9556
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Mammalia | |
Pahelia mysteriosa n. gen. n. sp.2
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Cambaytherium thewissi Bajpai et al. 2005 odd-toed ungulate GU/RSR/TAD 9002, GU/RSR/TAD 9202, WIF/A 1200, WIF/A 4217, WIF/A 4219-4224, WIF/A 4232-4234, WIF/A 4216 and WIF/A 4218
Cambaytherium gracilis n. sp. Smith et al. 2016 odd-toed ungulate GU/RSR/TAD 9001 - type; hypodigm: WIF/A 4210-4215, WIF/A 4235-4246
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