Therani, Tiruchirapalli (Cretaceous of India)
Where: Tamil Nadu, India (11.1° N, 78.9° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 52.3° S, 27.6° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sivaganga Formation, Early/Lower Cretaceous (145.0 - 100.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: S. Chandra and R. Tewari. 1991. A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 2: Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Megafossils. 1-81 [B. Allen/B. Allen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 229200: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 21.02.2023
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Taxonomic list
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Cycadopsida | |
Taeniopteris spatulata McClelland 1850 cycads | |
"Elatocladus tenerrimus" = Elatocladus tenerrima, Elatocladus plana
"Elatocladus tenerrimus" = Elatocladus tenerrima Feistmantel 1879 podocarp
Elatocladus plana Seward 1918 podocarp | |
Dictyozamites feistmantelii, Otozamites cf. goldlaei, "Taeniopteris cf. lata" = Pterophyllum princeps, Ptilophyllum cutchense, Anomozamites sp., Anomozamites haburensis
Dictyozamites feistmantelii Bose and Zeba-Bano 1978
"Taeniopteris cf. lata" = Pterophyllum princeps Oldham and Morris 1862
Ptilophyllum cutchense Morris 1840
Anomozamites sp. Schimper 1870
Anomozamites haburensis Bose and Banerji 1981 | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Equisetites sp. Sternberg 1833 | |
Cladophlebis sp. Brongniart 1849
Cladophlebis srivastavae Gupta 1954 | |
Sphenopteridae | |
Sphenopteris sp. Sternberg 1825
Sphenopteris tiruchirapalliense n. sp. Sukh-Dev and Rajanikanth 1988 | |
Equisetopsida | |
Brachyphyllum regularis, Brachyphyllum theraniense n. sp., Araucarites cutchensis, Araucarites minutus
Brachyphyllum regularis Borkar and Chiplonkar 1973
Brachyphyllum theraniense n. sp. Sukh-Dev and Bose 1974
Araucarites cutchensis Feistmantel 1876
Araucarites minutus Bose and Maheshwari 1973 |