Kalka-Kasauli Road (Miocene of India)

Where: Himachal Pradesh, India (30.9° N, 77.0° E: paleocoordinates 23.5° N, 76.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Formation (Siwalik Group), Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Srivastava. 1991. A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 4: Cenozoic (Tertiary) Megafossils. 1-45 [B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 227850: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 07.11.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Mesangiosperms - Arecaceae
Trachycarpus ladakhensis Lakhanpal and Guleria 1984 fan palm
 Rosales - Rhamnaceae
Berchemia balugoloaensis Lakhanpal 1967 buckthorn
Zizyphus indicus Singh and Prakash 1980 buckthorn
 Malpighiales - Salicaceae
Populus sp. Linnaeus 1753 poplar
 Fagales - Fagaceae
Quercus semecarpifolia Smith 1814 oak