Kallankurichchi (Cretaceous of India)

Where: Tamil Nadu, India (11.1° N, 79.1° E: paleocoordinates 35.3° S, 56.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kallankurichchi Formation (Ariyalur Group), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, sandy limestone

• reef bank facies

Primary reference: K. Ayyasami. 1989. Genus Anisomyon (Gastropoda) from the Cretaceous of Southern India. Journal of the Geological Society of India 33(4):361-364 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46507: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 14.01.2005, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Foraminifera
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 Lituolida - Lituolidae
 Rotaliina - Turrilinidae
Gastropoda
 Basommatophora - Siphonariidae
Anisomyon indicus n. sp. pulmonate
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Ostrea vesicularis" = Pycnodonta vesicularis
"Ostrea vesicularis" = Pycnodonta vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Alectryonia pectinata" = Ostrea (Alectryonia)
"Alectryonia pectinata" = Ostrea (Alectryonia) oyster
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonella sp. Fischer 1809
 Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae
Rectithyris subdepressa Stoliczka 1872