Where: India (25.2° N, 92.4° E: paleocoordinates 8.0° S, 80.6° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lakadong Formation, Thanetian to Thanetian (59.2 - 47.8 Ma)
• Late Palaeocene– earliest Eocene (Thanetian-Ilerdian)
Environment/lithology: coastal; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: S. Sarkar and G. M. N. Rao. 2018. Coralline red algae from late Palaeocene–earliest Eocene carbonates of Meghalaya, N–E India: palaeocommunity and trophic‑level implications. Carbonates and Evaporites [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 193458: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 18.05.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Florideophyceae | |
Mesophyllum cf. pfenderae Lemoine 1928
Phymatolithon sp. Foslie 1898
Lithothamnion roveretoi Airoldi 1970
Melobesioideae indet. Bizzozero 1885 | |
Foraminifera | |
Tubothalamea | |
Spiroloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Foraminifera | |
Biloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 |