Chiehruphi Village-3 (Paleocene of India)

Where: Meghalaya, India (25.2° N, 92.4° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 13.6° S, 87.7° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

When: SBZ 3 zone, Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; grainstone and packstone

• Oolitic grainstone-packstone

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: S. Sarkar. 2020. Ecostratigraphic implications of a Late Paleocene shallow-marine benthic community from the Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya, NE India. Journal of Earth System Science 129(10) [M. Clapham/K. Hassell/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 215200: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Keenan Hassell on 02.11.2020

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Taxonomic list

Florideophyceae
  - Corallinophycidae
Distichoplax biserialis Dieterich 1927