Itanagar–Banderdewa Road cutting (Pliocene to of India)

Where: Arunachal Pradesh, India (27.1° N, 93.7° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 25.8° N, 93.7° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kimin Formation (Siwalik Group), Late/Upper Pliocene to Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Herbarium and Museum, Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, India

Primary reference: M. A. Khan, S. Bera, R. Ghosh, R. A. Spicer, and T. E. V. Spicer. 2015. Leaf cuticular morphology of some angiosperm taxa from the Siwalik sediments (middle Miocene to lower Pleistocene) of Arunachal Pradesh, eastern Himalaya: Systematic and palaeoclimatic implications. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 214:9-26 [B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 224508: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 10.03.2022

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Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Malpighiales - Clusiaceae
Calophyllum suraikholaensis Awasthi and Prasad 1990
CUH/PPL/IB7/19; CUH/PPL/IB7/20
 Malpighiales - Euphorbiaceae
Macaranga cf. denticulata Blume 1826 spurge
CUH/PPL/IB7/41A, B
 Malvales - Dipterocarpaceae
Dipterocarpus koilabasensis Prasad et al. 1999
CUH/PPL/IB7/3; CUH/PPL/IB7/4; CUH/PPL/IB7/5; CUH/PPL/IB7/6
 Sapindales - Meliaceae
Dysoxylum raptiensis Prasad and Awasthi 1996 mahogany
CUH/PPL/IB7/17
 Laurales - Lauraceae
Actinodaphne palaeoangustifolia Antal and Awasthi 1993 laurel
CUH/PPL/IB7/40A, B
Pleosporaceae
  - Pleosporaceae
Phomites sp. Fritel 1910
fungus on Dysoxylum raptiensis
Dothideomycetes
 Asterinales - Asterinaceae
Palaeoasterina siwalika Mitra et al. 2002
fungus on Dipterocarpus koilabasensis