Gudalur, India: Goniomya and assoc. fauna (Cretaceous of India)

Also known as Goniomya and assoc. fauna, Gudalur, Tiruchirapalli District, Tamil Nadu State, India

Where: Tamil Nadu, India (11.1° N, 79.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.7° S, 46.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Coniacian (89.8 - 86.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, sandy limestone

• sandy limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. Ayyasami and B.R. Jagannatha Rao. 1980. Goniomya from the Trichinopoly Group, Upper Cretaceous, Tamil Nadu. Journal of the Geological Society of India 21(7):354-357 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46442: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 13.01.2005

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
"Trigonarca aff. trichinopolitensis" = Trigonarca (Costelliarca) trichinopolitensis
"Trigonarca aff. trichinopolitensis" = Trigonarca (Costelliarca) trichinopolitensis Forbes 1846 clam
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus aff. lamarcki Parkinson 1819 clam
Inoceramus of the Group Inoceramus lamarcki
"Inoceramus naumanni" = Sphenoceramus naumanni Yokoyama 1890 clam
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
 Ammonitida - Kossmaticeratidae
"Kossmaticeras theobaldianum" = Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) theobaldianum Stolickza 1865 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
"Pachydesmoceras pachydiscoides" = Pachydesmoceras pachydiscoide
"Pachydesmoceras pachydiscoides" = Pachydesmoceras pachydiscoide Matsumoto 1954 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Placenticeratidae
"Placenticeras" tamulicum Blanford 1862 ammonite