Terani Ammonites and assoc. flora and fauna (Cretaceous of India)

Where: Tamil Nadu, India (11.1° N, 78.9° E: paleocoordinates 48.3° S, 23.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• The ammonites of Terani indicate an Upper Neocomian (Barremian) age

Environment/lithology: marine; gray claystone and sandy claystone

• "Ash grey clay and sandy clay with ammonites and plant fossils

•2.00 m thick"

•lowest bed noted in sucession

Primary reference: V.D. Mamgain, M.V.A. Sastry, and J.V. Subbaraman. 1973. Report of Ammonites from Gondwana Plant Beds at Terani, Tiruchirapalli District, Tamil Nadu. Journal of the Geological Society of India 14(2):198-200 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 46314: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 10.01.2005

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Taxonomic list

 Bennettitales -
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Holcodiscidae
 Ammonitida - Hemihoplitidae
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
? Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam