Gangapur (Jurassic to of India)

Also known as PGAP 322

Where: Telangana, India (19.3° N, 79.4° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 51.4° S, 39.1° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gangapur Formation, Late/Upper Jurassic to Late/Upper Jurassic (161.5 - 100.5 Ma)

• Late Jurassic - Shah, 1972, "basal Lower Cretaceous" - Bose et al, 1990, p.137

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: S.C. Shah. 1972. Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous megaflora in India - a review. Records of the Geological Survey of India 109(2):55-81 [A. Rees/A. Rees]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 30126: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Allister Rees on 02.04.2003, edited by Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

• Genus-level assignments and numbers of species are from the PGAP database. Species names are in the process of being entered.
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Araucaria "sp. 1" de Jussieu 1789
Araucaria "sp. 2" de Jussieu 1789
Pagiophyllum marwarensis Bose and Sukh-Dev 1972
"Quarry north of Cave Temple near Gangapur"
Cycadopsida
 Cycadales -
Taeniopteris "sp. 1" Brongniart 1828 cycads
 Pteridospermales -
Thinnfeldia "sp. 1" Ettingshausen 1852 cycads
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Equisetum "sp. 1" Linnaeus 1753 horsetail
  -
Cladophlebis "sp. 1" Brongniart 1849
  - Gleicheniaceae
Gleichenia "sp. 1" Smith 1793
Gleichenia "sp. 2" Smith 1793
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Pinaceae
Abiespollenites sp.2 Raatz 1938
 Coniferales -
Torreyites "sp. 1" Seward 1919
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Elatocladus "sp. 1" Halle 1913 podocarp
Elatocladus "sp. 2" Halle 1913 podocarp
Elatocladus "sp. 3" Halle 1913 podocarp
Elatocladus kingianus n. sp. Bose et al. 1982 podocarp
"Quarry north of Cave Temple near Gangapur"
 Coniferales -
 Bennettitales -