Sendurai Village (Paleocene of India)

Where: Tamil Nadu, India (11.3° N, 79.2° E: paleocoordinates 29.2° S, 59.6° E)

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When: Ninniyur Formation, Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: P.K. Misra, A.K. Jauhri, A. Chowdhury and S. Kishore. 2001. Palaeocene Rhodophycean algae from the Ninniyur Formation of the Cauvery Basin southern India. Palaeobotanist 50:311-339 [M. Clapham/K. Hassell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 221612: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Keenan Hassell on 16.08.2021

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Taxonomic list

Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Lithophyllum sp. Philippi 1837