Where: Gujarat, India (21.4° N, 73.1° E: paleocoordinates 4.2° S, 63.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Cambay Shale Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• age based on Nummulites burdigalensis, which implies Shallow Benthic Zone 10 according to Bajpai et al, and SBZ 10-11 according to Rose et al.

•most small and large mammals are from two different, immediately superposed beds above Lignite 2 and at the base of the estuarine cycle 1, low in the section, but additional mammals are from supratidal deposits well above the highest lignite at the top of cycle 6 (Rose et al. 2009)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; argillaceous, carbonaceous siltstone and claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collected in 2004, 2006

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• "About a ton of sediment has been screen-washed and has yielded 23 jaws and >140 isolated teeth of continental mammals" (Rose et al.)

•the Bajpai et al. and Rose et al. collections appear to have been made separately, and the latter are in the Department of Geology, H. N. B. Garhwal University

Primary reference: S. Bajpai, V. V. Kapur, D. P. Das, B. N. Tiwari, N. Saravanan and R. Sharma. 2005. Early Eocene land mammals from Vastan Lignite Mine, District Surat (Gujarat), Western India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 50(1):101-113 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 55494: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 27.10.2005, edited by John Alroy, Jason Head, Patricia Holroyd, Philip Mannion and Terri Cleary

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