Where: Uttarakhand, India (30.0° N, 78.1° E: paleocoordinates 25.1° N, 78.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Haridwar Formation (Siwalik Group), Miocene to Miocene (23.0 - 2.6 Ma)
• Upper Miocene according to Varma 1968 (Lakhanpal et al. 1976)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Primary reference: M. Prasad. 2008. Angiospermous fossil leaves from the Siwalik foreland basins and their palaeoclimatic implications. The Palaeobotanist 57:177-215 [B. Allen/B. Allen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 222793: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 23.10.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Angiospermae | |
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Pongamia cf. glabra Prasad 1994 legume
Cassia cf. fistula Linnaeus 1753 legume
Dalbergia cf. sissoo Roxburgh 1825 legume
Albizia cf. gamblei Prasad 1994 legume | |
|
Ziziphus cf. rugosa Prasad 1994 buckthorn | |
|
Homonoia cf. riparia Prasad 1994 spurge
Croton cf. teglis Varma 1968 rushfoil | |
Meliaceaephyllum mahogonites n. sp.
Meliaceaephyllum mahogonites n. sp. Varma 1968 mahogany | |
| Dicotyledoneae | |
|
Diospyros embryopterisites Varma 1968 | |
|
Eucalyptophyllum raoi Varma 1968 myrtle | |
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Myrsine capitellala Prasad 1994 | |