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

Cycadopsida
 Cycadales -
Taeniopteris spatulata McClelland 1850 cycads
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
"Elatocladus tenerrimus" = Elatocladus tenerrima, Elatocladus plana
"Elatocladus tenerrimus" = Elatocladus tenerrima Feistmantel 1879 podocarp
Elatocladus plana Seward 1918 podocarp
 Bennettitales -
Dictyozamites feistmantelii Bose and Zeba-Bano 1978
"Taeniopteris cf. lata" = Pterophyllum princeps Oldham and Morris 1862
Anomozamites sp. Schimper 1870
Anomozamites haburensis Bose and Banerji 1981
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Equisetites sp. Sternberg 1833
  -
Cladophlebis sp. Brongniart 1849
Sphenopteridae
  - Sphenopteridae
Sphenopteris sp. Sternberg 1825
Sphenopteris tiruchirapalliense n. sp. Sukh-Dev and Rajanikanth 1988
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
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