Kunnam: Turtle and Associated Fauna: Early/Lower Turonian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Podocnemididae
Shweboemys sp. Swinton 1939
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Mytiloides mytiloides (Mantell 1822)
Sphenoceramus diversus
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra suborbiculata
Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Nautilidae
Eutrephoceras huxleyanus
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Spathites (Jeanrogericeras) crassitesta
Mammites conciliatum (Stoliczka 1865)
recombined as Pseudaspidoceras conciliatum
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Vascoceratidae
Neoptychites cephalotus (Courtiller 1860)
see common names

Geography
Country:India State/province:Tamil Nadu County:Tiruchirapalli
Coordinates: 11.2° North, 79.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.3° South, 45.3° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Turonian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Turonian
Age range of interval:93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Uttattur Formation:Kunnam
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: calcaresous concentrations in a clay bed
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:46391
Authorizer:L. Ivany Enterer:P. Wall
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate,vertebrate
Created:2005-01-12 11:35:41 Last modified:2019-05-06 17:48:28
Access level:the public Released:2005-01-12 11:35:41
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
12407. K. Ayyasami and I. Das. 1990. Unusual preservation of a Cretaceous turtle fossil. Journal of the Geological Society of India 36(5):519-522 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/M. Carrano]