Elgin Road - Chowringhee Crossing, Kolkata (Quaternary of India)

Where: West Bengal, India (22.5° N, 88.3° E: paleocoordinates 22.1° N, 88.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Quaternary (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• "Late Quaternary" (Chauhan 1991)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithology not reported

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: M. S. Chauhan. 1991. A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 6: Cenozoic (Quaternary) Palynology and Palaeobotany. 1-50 [B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 228810: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 09.01.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Angiospermae
 Poales - Poaceae
Poaceae indet.
Poaceae indet. Barnhart 1895 grass
 Poales - Typhaceae
Typha sp.
Typha sp. Linnaeus 1753 bulrush
 Mesangiosperms - Arecaceae
Nypa sp., Phoenix sp.
Nypa sp. van Wurmb 1779 palm
Phoenix sp. Linnaeus 1753 palm
 Caryophyllales - Chenopodiaceae
Suaeda sp.
Suaeda sp. Forsskål 1776 seepweed
Dicotyledoneae
 Ericales - Barringtoniaceae
Barringtonia sp.
Barringtonia sp. Forster and Forster 1775
 Myrtales - Sonneratiaceae
Sonneratia sp.
Sonneratia sp. Linnaeus
Angiospermae
 Malpighiales - Euphorbiaceae
Excoecaria sp.
Excoecaria sp. Linnaeus 1759 spurge
 Malvales - Sterculiaceae
Heritiera sp.
Polypodiopsida
  - Polypodiaceae
Polypodium sp.
Polypodium sp. Linnaeus 1753
 Polypodiales - Polypodiidae
Pteris sp., Adiantum sp., Dryopteris sp., Davallia sp., Microlepia sp.
Pteris sp. Linnaeus 1753
Adiantum sp. Linnaeus 1753
Dryopteris sp. Adanson 1763
Davallia sp. Smith 1793
Microlepia sp. Presl 1836
Lycopodiopsida
 Lycopodiales - Lycopodiaceae
Lycopodium sp.
Lycopodium sp. Linnaeus 1753 ground pine
Ceratopteris
  -
Ceratopteris sp.
Ceratopteris sp. Brongniart 1821