Island of Bombay (Paleocene of India)

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

• "a mass of blue rock, weathering into a shale not unlike ordinary coal shale, and containing what I have no doubt will turn out to be vegetable impressions" (Clark 1847)

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

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Taxonomic list

• apparently includes material from several parts of the island
Amphibia
 Salientia - Calyptocephalellidae
"Rana pusilla n. sp." = Indobatrachus pusillus
"Rana pusilla n. sp." = Indobatrachus pusillus Owen 1847 frog