Budah Nala- Andaman (Paleocene of India)

Where: Andaman Island , India (12.8° N, 92.9° E: paleocoordinates 1.3° N, 100.2° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Burma Dera Member (Baratang Formation), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; gray limestone

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: P. Kundal and K. M. Wanjarwadkar. 2002. On stratigraphy, age and depositional environment of algal limestone of middle Andaman Island, Andaman, India. Gondwana Geological Magazine 17(2):103-108 [M. Clapham/K. Hassell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 214899: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Keenan Hassell on 21.10.2020

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Rotaliina - Lepitorbitoididae
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Distichoplax biserialis Dieterich 1927
Jania sp. Lamoroux 1812
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales -
Dasycladales "indet." Kützing 1860