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
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Bivalvia | |
"Trigonarca aff. trichinopolitensis" = Trigonarca (Costelliarca) trichinopolitensis
"Trigonarca aff. trichinopolitensis" = Trigonarca (Costelliarca) trichinopolitensis Forbes 1846 clam | |
Inoceramus aff. lamarcki, "Inoceramus naumanni" = Sphenoceramus naumanni
"Inoceramus naumanni" = Sphenoceramus naumanni Yokoyama 1890 clam | |
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam | |
Goniomya (Goniomya) stoliczkai n. sp. clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Scaphites brahminicus ammonite | |
Kossmaticeras bhavani, "Kossmaticeras theobaldianum" = Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) theobaldianum
Kossmaticeras bhavani ammonite
"Kossmaticeras theobaldianum" = Kossmaticeras (Kossmaticeras) theobaldianum Stolickza 1865 ammonite | |
"Pachydesmoceras pachydiscoides" = Pachydesmoceras pachydiscoide
"Pachydesmoceras pachydiscoides" = Pachydesmoceras pachydiscoide Matsumoto 1954 ammonite | |
"Placenticeras" tamulicum Blanford 1862 ammonite |