Where: Meghalaya, India (25.3° N, 92.3° E: paleocoordinates 3.3° N, 83.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Sylhet Member (Shella Formation), Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)

• middle Eocene, from about the middle part of the 110 m thick bed. The description for the unit is: Jaintia Group; Shella (Sylhet Limestone) Formation; Upper Sylhet (Prang) Limestone Member.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, argillaceous limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: P. P. Satsangi and U. N. Changkakoti. 1989. Fossil Decapod Crustacea from Upper Sylhet (Prang) Limestone of Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya. Journal of the Geological Society of India 34:277-281 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41800: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 20.07.2004

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