Lunglei, Mizoram, India (Tiwari et al., 1997) (Miocene of India)

Where: Mizoram, India (22.9° N, 92.7° E: paleocoordinates 15.6° N, 94.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Bhuban Formation (Surma Group), Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• The Upper Bhuban Formation of the Surma Group in Mizoram may be of Aquitanian-Burdigalian to Burdigalian age.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, silty sandstone and pebbly, brown sandstone

• The faunal assemblage indicates a shallow marine environment of deposition.
• The two crab-bearing beds in the Upper Bhuban are noted at this locality as well. The lower horizon is 1.0 m thick, a grey hard silty sandstone, while the upper horizon is 1.5 m thick, a highly weathered, deep brown pebbly sandstone. The associated fossils include plates of barnacles and fragments of bivalve and gastropod shells. (Shark teeth and foraminifers are mentioned as well).

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: The specimens are housed in the Palaeontology Museum of the Department of Geology, Pachhunga University College in Mizoram.

Primary reference: R. P. Tiwari, G. Barman, and P.P. Satsangi. 1997. Miocene crabs from Mizoram, India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 42:127-132 [L. Ivany/C. Visaggi/C. Visaggi]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42762: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Christy Visaggi on 05.08.2004

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Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Calappidae
Calappa protopustulosa
Calappa protopustulosa Noetling 1901 box crab
 Decapoda -
Typilobus granulosus
Typilobus granulosus Stoliczka 1871 crab