Olaipadi VL 1 (Cretaceous of India)

Where: Tamil Nadu, India (11.7° N, 78.5° E: paleocoordinates 49.7° S, 36.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Kallakudi Limestone Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: repository: Algology Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Lucknow, Lucknow.

Primary reference: P.K. Misra, A.K. Jauhri, S.K. Singh, S. Kishore, and A. Rajanikanth. 2006. Non-geniculate coralline algae from the Uttatur Group (Early Cretaceous), south India. The Palaeobotanist 55:29-40 [M. Clapham/K. Hassell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 219377: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Keenan Hassell on 07.04.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Amphiroa guatemalense Johnson and Kaska 1965
 Sporolithales - Corallinophycidae
"Sporolithon lugeoni" = Sporolithon lugeonii
"Sporolithon lugeoni" = Sporolithon lugeonii Pfender 1926