Where: Jharkhand, India (23.4° N, 84.1° E: paleocoordinates 21.6° N, 84.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rajdanda Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• Late Neogene. "Earlier some workers have considered the age of the Rajdanda Formation to be Pliocene, but till date there is no definitive evidence for this." According to Drohojowska et al. (2023): "As of now, no absolute dating is available for this formation, but plant megafossil study and palynological analysis could correlate to being 'late Tertiary' (Pliocene). Occurrences of Sindora wood from the same formation typically indicate Pliocene age, as Sindora is an index fossil of the Pliocene age

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified sandstone and lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Herbarium and Museum, Department of Botany, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia, India

Primary reference: M. Hazra, T. Hazra, S. K. Sarkar, S. Bera, and M. A. Khan. 2020. First fossil dragonfly from India. Current Science 119:1204-1207 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 214996: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.10.2020, edited by Mark Uhen and Bethany Allen

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