Kota Formation outcrop K-2 (Jurassic of India)

Where: Andhra Pradesh, India (25.2° N, 75.8° E: paleocoordinates 25.6° S, 37.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kota Formation, Toarcian (182.7 - 174.1 Ma)

• Upper bed 8. Analysing the faunas of the underlying Dharmaram Formation and of the lower and upper units of the Kota Formation and comparing them with faunas from coeval horizons, Bandyopadhyay and Roychowdhury (1996) and Bandyopadhyay and Sengupta (2006) suggested that the Lower Kota Formation has an age ranging from Sinemurian to Pliensbachian, while the age of the upper Kota is Toarcian and may even be extended to Middle Jurassic (?Aalenian)." (Bandyopadhyay et al. 2010)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone

• Pranhita-Godavari Basin

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by P. Tasch in 1987; reposited in the MCZ

Primary reference: A. P. Rasnitsyn. 2008. New hymenopteran insects (Insecta: Vespida) from the Lower or Middle Jurassic of India. Paleontological Journal 42(1):81-85 [D. Smith/E. Leckey/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79229: authorized by Dena Smith, entered by Erin Leckey on 28.02.2008, edited by Jered Karr

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Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Hymenoptera - Sepulcidae
Xyelula alexandri n. gen. n. sp.
Xyelula alexandri n. gen. n. sp. Rasnitsyn 2008 stem sawfly
MCZ 11831
 Orthoptera - Protogryllidae
Protogryllus (Protogryllus) lakshmi n. sp. PĂ©rez-de la Fuente et al. 2012 grasshopper
MCZ 3046