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; packstone and bindstone
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 215017: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Keenan Hassell on 27.10.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Ulvophyceae | |
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812 | |
Foraminifera | |
Planorbulinella sp. Cushman 1927 | |
Nummulites sp. Lamarck 1801
Ranikothalia sp. Caudri 1944 | |
Orbitosiphon sp. Rao 1940 | |
Tubothalamea | |
Globothalamea | |
Aberisphaera sp. Wan 1991 | |
Florideophyceae | |
"Lithothamnium sp." = Lithothamnion
"Lithothamnium sp." = Lithothamnion Heydrich 1897 | |
Ethelia sp. Weber-van Bosse 1921
Distichoplax biserialis Dieterich 1927
Archaeolithothamnium sp. Rothpletz 1891 |