Lumshnong Village- Umlatdoh Limestone (Eocene of India)

Where: Meghalaya, India (25.2° N, 92.4° E: paleocoordinates 5.7° S, 81.2° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: S. Sarkar. 2015. Calcareous algal-rich carbonate sediments from Assam shelf, N-E India: an overview of the palaeoenvironmental implications . In S. Mukherjee (ed.), Petroleum Geosciences: Indian Contexts 175-189 [M. Clapham/K. Hassell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 214993: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Keenan Hassell on 26.10.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales -
Acicularia robusta, Acicularia valeti
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Halimeda cylindracea, Halimeda tuna, Halimeda fragilis
Halimeda cylindracea Decaisne 1842
Halimeda tuna Lamouroux 1816
Halimeda fragilis Taylor 1950
 Bryopsidales - Udoteaceae
Ovulites margaritula, Ovulites arabica, Ovulites pyriformis
Ovulites margaritula Lamarck 1816
Ovulites arabica Pfender 1938
Ovulites pyriformis Schwager 1883
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Textularia sp.
Textularia sp. Defrance 1824
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Alveolinidae
Alveolina sp.
Foraminifera
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
Nummulites sp.
Nummulites sp. Lamarck 1801
 Rotaliina - Lepitorbitoididae
Daviesina sp.
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
Lockhartia sp.