Nongtrai village, borehole BH-1: Priabonian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Florideophyceae - Hapalidiales - Hapalidiaceae
Melobesioideae indet. Bizzozero 1885
Florideophyceae - Sporolithales - Sporolithaceae
Sporolithon gunteri Johnson and Ferris 1948
Florideophyceae - Corallinales - Spongitaceae
Spongites informal sp. 2 Kützing 1841
Spongites sp. Kützing 1841
Florideophyceae - Corallinales - Hydrolithaceae
Lithoporella melobesioides Foslie 1909
see common names

Geography
Country:India
Coordinates: 25.2° North, 91.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.1° North, 85.1° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Priabonian
Age range of interval:37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Jaintia Formation:Prang Limestone
Stratigraphy comments: late Eocene
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,green "limestone"
Lithology description: greenish to greyish, hard, compact limestone
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Geology comments: greyish to brownish white, marly to massive, hard limestone characterised
by assemblages of Nummulites, Discocyclina and calcareous algae.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
Database number:156242
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Modifier:M. Krause Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-05-15 04:34:53 Last modified:2014-05-15 04:42:16
Access level:the public Released:2014-11-15 04:34:53
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
51174. S. Kishore, A. P. Singh, A. K. Jauhri, P. K. Misra, S. K. Singh and B. C. Lyngdoh. 2007. Coralline algae from the Prang Formation (Eocene) of the South Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, India. 26(2):615-623 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]