Kakara village (Paleocene of India)

Where: Himachal Pradesh, India (31.1° N, 77.0° E: paleocoordinates 3.0° S, 68.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kakara Formation, Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Gupta and K. Kumar. 2013. Ziphodont Crocodilian and other biotic remains from the Paleocene-basal Eocene Kakara Formation, NW Sub-Himalaya: palaeogeographic and palaeoecologic implications. Himalayan Geology 34(2):172-182 [M. Uhen/C. Violaris/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 194122: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 14.06.2018

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
Lockhartia conditi Nuttall 1926
 Rotaliina - Lepitorbitoididae
Chondrichthyes
 Orectolobiformes - Ginglymostomatidae
Ginglymostoma sp. Müller and Henle 1838 nurse shark
WIMF/A 1612