Where: Meghalaya, India (25.0° N, 91.3° E: paleocoordinates 6.9° N, 84.0° E)
When: Prang Formation (Sylhet Limestone Group), Bartonian to Bartonian (41.3 - 33.9 Ma)
Environment/lithology: slope or ramp reef; limestone
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: Lucknow University Geology Department (LUGD)
Primary reference: A. K. Ghosh and S. Sarkar. 2013. Palaeoecological implications of Corallinacean red algae and Halimedacean green algae from the Prang Formation of south Shillong Plateau, Meghalaya. Journal Geological Society of India 81:531-542 [M. Clapham/K. Hassell]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 214709: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Keenan Hassell on 13.10.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Florideophyceae | |
Jania occidentalis, Corallina kachchhensis, Lithoporella melobesioides, Lithothamnion ramosissimum, Sporolithon sp.
Jania occidentalis Johnson and Kaska 1965
Corallina kachchhensis Kundal and Humane 2003
Lithoporella melobesioides Foslie 1909
Lithothamnion ramosissimum Reuss 1847
Sporolithon sp. Rothpletz 1891 | |
| Foraminifera | |
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Nummulites sp. Lamarck 1801 | |
| Ulvophyceae | |
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Halimeda cylindracea Decaisne 1842 | |