Mukurmatia Local, Unit 3, Baripada Beds (Miocene of India)
Where: Orissa, India (21.9° N, 86.7° E: paleocoordinates 15.6° N, 85.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: paralic; gray, green shale
• Grey to greyish-green finely laminated, splintry at places, fossiliferous
Primary reference: S. N. Bhalla and P. Dev. 1988. Paleoecology of Baripada beds (Middle Miocene), East Coast of India. Bulletin of the Indian Geologists' Association 21(2):141-153 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 46365: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 11.01.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Actinopteri | |
Sphyraena obtusata barracuda | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Pristis aquitanicus Delfortrie 1871 sawfish | |
Galeorhinus parvulus school shark | |
Galeocerdo aduncus Agassiz 1835 tiger shark | |
Scoliodon laticaudus, Carcharhinus maculipinnis, Carcharhinus frequens, Carcharhinus cf. egertoni, Hypoprion macloti
Scoliodon laticaudus requiem shark
Carcharhinus maculipinnis requiem shark
Carcharhinus frequens Dames 1883 requiem shark
Carcharhinus cf. egertoni Agassiz 1843 requiem shark
Hypoprion macloti requiem shark | |
Carchariolamna heroni mackerel shark | |
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon | |
Isurus pagoda mackerel shark | |
Hexanchus sp. Rafinesque 1810 sixgill shark | |
Dasyatis sp. Rafinesque 1810 whiptail stingray | |
Rhinoptera raeburni White 1934 cownose ray | |
Aetobatus irregularis Agassiz 1843 stingray | |
Bivalvia | |
Ostrea papyracea oyster
Ostrea indet. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
"Ostrea promensis" = Ostrea (Ostrea) promensis Noetling 1901 oyster | |
Foraminifera | |
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Cancris auriculus Fichtel and Moll 1798 | |
Globothalamea | |
Protelphidium sp., Nonion baripadaensis n. sp., Nonion cf. microumbilicatus, Florilus scaphus, Nonionella sp.
Nonion baripadaensis n. sp.
Nonionella sp. Cushman 1926 | |
Cibicides sp., Planulina sastryi n. sp.
Cibicides sp. Monfort 1808
Planulina sastryi n. sp. |