VL/3: Albian, India
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Florideophyceae
- Hapalidiales
- Hapalidiaceae
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Melobesioideae informal indet
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Florideophyceae
- Sporolithales
- Sporolithaceae
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Sporolithon sp.
(Rothpletz 1891)
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| original and current combination Archaeolithothamnium | |||||||
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Geography
| Country: | India |
| Coordinates: | 11.5° North, 78.8° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 50.0° South, 36.7° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Albian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 4 |
| Key time interval: | Albian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 113.00000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Kallakudi limestone |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
| Geology comments: 6.5 m thick sequence which is richly fossiliferous with abundant algal flora and megainvertebrate fossils. The limestone is both well bedded and massive, and is mud-supported. At places, the algal bioherms are very well developed in the quarry | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils,microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 222127 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | K. Hassell | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2021-09-13 08:09:47 | Last modified: | 2021-09-13 08:09:47 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2021-09-13 08:09:47 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 47642. | P. K. Misra, S. Kishore, S. K. Singh and A. K. Jauhri. 2009. Rhodophycean Algae from the Lower Cretaceous of the Cauvery Basin, South India. Journal geological society of India 73:325-334 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause] |