Tharia Village-86/Lkd/DR6 (Paleocene to of India)

Where: Meghalaya, India (25.2° N, 91.8° E: paleocoordinates 7.8° S, 80.0° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Lakadong Limestone Formation, Thanetian to Thanetian (59.2 - 47.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; bindstone and grainstone

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: A. K. Jauhri. 1994. Carbonate buildup in the Lakadong Formation of the South Shillong Plateau, NE India: A micropaleontological perspective . In R. Matteucci (ed.), Studies on ecology and paleoecology of benthic communities 2:157-169 [M. Clapham/K. Hassell/K. Hassell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 215015: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Keenan Hassell on 27.10.2020

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Taxonomic list

Florideophyceae
  - Corallinophycidae
Distichoplax biserialis Dieterich 1927
Archaeolithothamnium sp. Rothpletz 1891
"Lithothamnium sp." = Lithothamnion Heydrich 1897
 Peyssonneliales - Rhodymeniophycidae
Ethelia sp. Weber-van Bosse 1921
Foraminifera
 Rotaliina - Lepitorbitoididae
 Planorbulinacea - Planorbulinidae
Planorbulinella sp. Cushman 1927
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
Nummulites sp. Lamarck 1801
Ranikothalia sp. Caudri 1944
 Nummulitacea - Discocyclinidae
 Orbitoidacea - Lepidorbitoididae
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
 Rotaliacea - Pellatispiridae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Alveolinidae
Globothalamea
 Loftusiida - Acervulinidae
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812