Bara Simla microvertebrate site, Jabalpur (Cretaceous of India)

Where: Madhya Pradesh, India (23.2° N, 80.0° E: paleocoordinates 24.7° S, 63.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Limestone Member (Lameta Formation), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• Main Limestone = Lower Limestone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; green, cherty/siliceous limestone and green claystone

• from "green marls intercalated within the Lower Limestone"

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by S. Singh, A. Tripathi in 1982

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), sieve,

Primary reference: A. Sahni and A. Tripathi. 1990. Age implications of the Jabalpur Lameta Formation and intertrappean biotas. In A. Sahni & A. Jolly (ed.), Cretaceous Event Stratigraphy and Correlation of the Indian Nonmarine Strata. Contributions from the Seminar cum Workshop, IGCP Projects 216 and 245 35-37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 226125: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.06.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
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Cyprinotus sp. Brady 1886 ostracod
 Podocopida - Cyprididae
Paracypretta sp. Sars 1924 ostracod
 Podocopida - Candonidae
Eucandona sp. Daday 1900 ostracod
 Podocopida - Darwinulidae
Darwinula sp. Brady and Robertson 1885 ostracod
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Physidae
Physa prinsepii Sowerby 1840 snail
 Heterostropha - Lymnaeidae
 Architaenioglossa - Viviparidae
Paludina normalis Hislop 1859 snail
Actinopteri
 Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Pycnodus sp. Agassiz 1833
 Aulopiformes - Ichthyotringidae
Apateodus striatus Woodward 1901
 Tetraodontiformes - Eotrigonodontidae
Stephanodus sp. Zittel 1883
 Osteoglossiformes - Osteoglossidae
Phareodus sp. Leidy 1873 arowana
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Amphibia
 Salientia - Pelobatidae
Pelobatidae indet. Lataste 1879 spadefoot toad
 Charales - Characea
Platychara sp. Grambast 1962
Microchara sp. Grambast 1959
Peckichara sp. Grambast 1957