Where: 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)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Upper Bhuban Fm of the Bhuban Subgroup, Surma Group (Early-Middle Miocene), which presumably overlies the Middle Bhuban Fm and overlain by sediments of the Boka Bil Subgroup (Ganju, 1975). THICKNESS: From bed of about 1 m thickness within section of 12 m in thickness. AGE: Aquitanian-Burdigalian, Early Miocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From near middle of section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, silty sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Reposited in the GSI
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTORS: R. P. Tiwari (unknown date). REPOSITORY: Geological Survey of India (GSI), Pachhunga University College (PUC)
Primary reference: B. P. Tiwari. 2001. Neogene palaeontology of the Surma Group, Mizoram, India. 1 - The Arcoida (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Journal of the Paleontological Society of India 46:147-160 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 72216: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.05.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Anadara garoensis Mukerjee 1939 ark |