Where: Gujarat, India (23.5° N, 68.9° E: paleocoordinates 17.5° N, 67.9° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Khari Nadi Formation, Aquitanian to Aquitanian (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• Aquitanian or Burdigalian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; brown, yellow, silty claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: S. Bajpai, D. P. Domning, D. P. Das, J. Velez-Juarbe, and V. P. Mishra. 2010. A new fossil sirenian (Mammalia, Dugonginae) from the Miocene of India. Neus Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaeontologie, Abhandlungen 258(1):39-50 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 97632: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 16.08.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Kutchisiren cylindrica n. gen. n. sp.
Kutchisiren cylindrica n. gen. n. sp. Bajpai et al. 2010 dugong =Kotadasiren gracillis, a name that was proposed for this specimen, but never properly described
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