Also known as MB3 Mangrol Lignite Mine
Where: Gujarat, India (21.4° N, 73.1° E: paleocoordinates 4.2° S, 63.2° E)
When: Cambay Shale Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, carbonaceous limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, original aragonite, shellbed
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical, sieve,
• The studied material is deposited in the Department of Geology, Presidency University, Kolkata, India
Primary reference: S. Banerjee and K. Halder. 2024. A new caenogastropod assemblage from the early Eocene of the Cambay Basin, western India, and its palaeoenvironmental implications. Papers in Palaeontology 10(5)more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 236692: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Sayoni Banerjee on 21.10.2024
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Amaurellina cambayensis Banerjee and Halder 2024 moon snail | |
Rimella rokeyae Banerjee and Halder 2024 true conch | |
Siphonalia pritilatae Banerjee and Halder 2024 true whelk | |
Ptychocerithium shamukum Banerjee and Halder 2024 cerith snail
Serratocerithium indicum Banerjee and Halder 2024 cerith snail | |
Indobatillaria ismatae Banerjee and Halder 2024 snail | |
Sandbergeria khanae Banerjee and Halder 2024 snail | |
Potamides shahensis Banerjee and Halder 2024 horn snail | |
Pachycerithium richardi Banerjee and Halder 2024 snail
Faunus lamarckii Deshayes 1862 snail | |
Ampullina brevispira Leymerie 1846 snail
Ampullina vastanensis Banerjee and Halder 2024 snail
Ampullina eocenica Banerjee and Halder 2024 snail |