Road cutting near Jule, Itanagar (Pliocene of India)

Where: Arunachal Pradesh, India (27.1° N, 93.6° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 24.5° N, 93.6° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Subansiri Formation (Siwalik Group), Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; siltstone

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 224515: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 11.03.2022

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Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Malvales - Dipterocarpaceae
Shorea siwalika Antal and Awasthi 1993
CUH/PPL/JU/1; CUH/PPL/JU/2