Where: India (23.7° N, 92.7° E: paleocoordinates 17.3° N, 93.0° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Bhuban Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• Latest early to earliest middle Miocene. Tf 1 interval of the East Indies Letter Clasification
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; sandstone and siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: A. K. Jauhri, B. D. Mandaokar, R. C. Mehrotra, R. P. Tiwari, and A. P. Singh. 2003. Corals and foraminifera from the Miocene (Upper Bhuban Formation) of Mizoram, India. Jouranl of the Palaeontological Society of India 48:135-138 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 146871: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 01.07.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Tubothalamea | |
Alveolinidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839 | |
Echinoidea | |
Hemiasteridae indet. Clark 1917 heart urchin | |
Anthozoa | |
Septastrea cf. forebesi stony coral | |
? Platytrochus sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral |