Where: Tamil Nadu, India (11.1° N, 79.0° E: paleocoordinates 42.1° S, 51.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Karapadites karapadense ammonoid zone, Sillakudi Formation (Ariyalur Group), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• Upper part of the formation. Formerly a Devonian collection. Karapadites karapadense zone is pretty useless: it's basically the Campanian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: V. Radulović and K. Ramamoorthy. 2000. Late Cretaceous (Campanian) brachiopods from southern India. Memoir of the Geological Society of India 46:113-118 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3634: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 05.08.1999, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)