Neil Island 2 (Pleistocene of India)

Where: Andaman Islands, India (11.8° N, 93.0° E: paleocoordinates 11.3° N, 93.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Upper Limestone Member (Neill West Coast Formation), Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; limestone

• It is a buff coloured, fossiliferous, argillaceous, limestone containing corals, foraminifera, and coralline algae

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by Kishore

Primary reference: S. Kishore, A.K. Jauhri, B. Malakar and P.K. Misra. 2015. Coralline algae from the Neill West Coast Formation (Pleistocene), Neil Island, South Andaman, India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 60(2):57-69 [M. Clapham/K. Hassell/K. Hassell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 221976: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Keenan Hassell on 03.09.2021

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Taxonomic list

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Florideophyceae
  - Corallinophycidae
Amphiroa sp., Metagoniolithon sp., Corallina sp., Lithophyllum nitorum, Hydrolithon sp.
Amphiroa sp. Lamoroux 1812
Metagoniolithon sp. Weber van Bosse 1904
Corallina sp. Linnaeus 1758
Lithophyllum nitorum Adey and Adey 1973
Hydrolithon sp. Foslie 1909