Kunnam: Turtle and Associated Fauna (Cretaceous of India)

Where: Tamil Nadu, India (11.2° N, 79.0° E: paleocoordinates 45.3° S, 45.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kunnam Formation (Uttattur Group), Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified claystone

• calcaresous concentrations in a clay bed

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: K. Ayyasami and I. Das. 1990. Unusual preservation of a Cretaceous turtle fossil. Journal of the Geological Society of India 36(5):519-522 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46391: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 12.01.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Podocnemididae
Shweboemys sp. Swinton 1939 sideneck turtle
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Vascoceratidae
Neoptychites cephalotus Courtiller 1860 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
"Mammites conciliatum" = Pseudaspidoceras conciliatum Stoliczka 1865 ammonite
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae