Cheropadi Limestone, Bryazoa and associated (Miocene of India)

Where: Gujarat, India (23.3° N, 69.3° E: paleocoordinates 17.9° N, 68.7° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, sandy limestone

• sandy shelly limestone

Primary reference: B. S. Tewari and I.P. Srivastava. 1967. On Some Fossil Bryozoa From India. Journal of the Geological Society of India 8:18-28 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 46295: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 10.01.2005

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Austrotrillinidae
 Miliolida - Soritidae
Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata - Diaperoeciidae
Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Quadricellariidae
Nellia kutchensis Tewari and Srivastava 1967
 Cheilostomata - Candidae