Mukurmatia Local, Unit 3, Baripada Beds (Miocene of India)
Where: Orissa, India (21.9° N, 86.7° E: paleocoordinates 15.6° N, 85.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: paralic; gray, green shale
• Grey to greyish-green finely laminated, splintry at places, fossiliferous
Primary reference: S. N. Bhalla and P. Dev. 1988. Paleoecology of Baripada beds (Middle Miocene), East Coast of India. Bulletin of the Indian Geologists' Association 21(2):141-153 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 46365: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 11.01.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Foraminifera | |
Cancris auriculus Fichtel and Moll 1798 | |
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Globothalamea | |
Planulina sastryi n. sp., Cibicides sp.
Planulina sastryi n. sp.
Cibicides sp. Monfort 1808 | |
Nonionella sp., Protelphidium sp., Nonion baripadaensis n. sp., Nonion cf. microumbilicatus, Florilus scaphus
Nonionella sp. Cushman 1926
Nonion baripadaensis n. sp. | |
Foraminifera | |
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Actinopteri | |
Sphyraena obtusata barracuda | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Dasyatis sp. Rafinesque 1810 whiptail stingray | |
Aetobatus irregularis Agassiz 1843 stingray | |
Rhinoptera raeburni White 1934 cownose ray | |
Pristis aquitanicus Delfortrie 1871 sawfish | |
Hexanchus sp. Rafinesque 1810 sixgill shark | |
Galeocerdo aduncus Agassiz 1835 tiger shark | |
Galeorhinus parvulus school shark | |
Scoliodon laticaudus, Carcharhinus maculipinnis, Carcharhinus cf. egertoni, Carcharhinus frequens, Hypoprion macloti
Scoliodon laticaudus requiem shark
Carcharhinus maculipinnis requiem shark
Carcharhinus cf. egertoni Agassiz 1843 requiem shark
Carcharhinus frequens Dames 1883 requiem shark
Hypoprion macloti requiem shark | |
Isurus pagoda mackerel shark | |
Carchariolamna heroni mackerel shark | |
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon | |
Bivalvia | |
Ostrea papyracea oyster
Ostrea indet. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
"Ostrea promensis" = Ostrea (Ostrea) promensis Noetling 1901 oyster |