Also known as Intertrappean Beds Bombay
Where: Maharashtra, India (19.0° N, 72.8° E: paleocoordinates 19.5° S, 57.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Paleocene (66.0 - 61.7 Ma)
• from the "highest and most western" of "five or six bands of trap rock" making up the island (Clark 1847)
•Intertrappean Beds
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression, soft parts
Collected by Dr. Leith, G. T. Clark in 1846; reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: R. Owen. 1847. On the Batracholites, indicative of a small species of frog (Rana pusilla, Ow). Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 3(1):224-225 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 92026: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.10.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
"Rana pusilla n. sp." = Indobatrachus pusillus
"Rana pusilla n. sp." = Indobatrachus pusillus Owen 1847 frog |