Also known as PGAP 480

Where: Sri Lanka (8.1° N, 79.9° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° S, 17.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Callovian to Callovian (166.1 - 152.1 Ma)

• Tabbowa Beds. Predominant Jurassic gymnospermous pollen assemblage (Araucariacites australis, A. cooksonii, A. fissus and Callialasporites dampieri with spore Murospora florida) belongs to the Callovian-Kimmeridgian age

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by D.N. Wadia in 1940

Primary reference: R. V. Sitholey. 1944. Jurassic plants from the Tabbowa Series in Ceylon. Spolia Zeylanica 24:3-17 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 30893: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Allister Rees on 02.04.2003

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