Where: India (22.0° N, 70.5° E: paleocoordinates 22.0° N, 70.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Porbandar Calcarenite Member (Chaya Formation), Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Porbandar Calcarenite Mbr of Chaya Fm, which conformably overlies the Aramda Reef Mbr of the Chaya Fm (Late Pleistocene) and is unconformably overlain by the Katpur Fm (Middle Holocene). AGE: Chaya Fm is Late Pleistocene-Late Holocene, and with the Porbandar Calcarenite Mbr being the upper unit of the formation it is assigned here to a Holocene age. Age assignment based on combination of C and U/Th dates (numerous authors cited). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From several beds throughout the Porbandar Calcarenite Mbr, which is the upper unit of the formation.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: foreshore; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal grainstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Pandey, Bahadur, Mathur

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORs: Unknown, probably Pandey, Bahadur, and Mathur. REPOSITORY: Department of Geology, University of Rajasthan, India.

Primary reference: D. K. Pandey, T. Bahadur, and U. B. Mathur. 2007. Stratigraphic distribution and depositional environment of the Chaya Formation along the northwestern coast of Saurashtra Peninsula, western India. Journal of the Geological Society of India 69:1215-1230 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76320: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.11.2007

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