Otacod, lower Ariyalur group (Cretaceous of India)

Where: Tamil Nadu, India (11.2° N, 79.1° E: paleocoordinates 42.1° S, 51.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ariyalur Group, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• Lower part

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H. Warth

• Repository: possibly Geological Survey of India

Primary reference: E. Spengler. 1910. Untersuchungen über die südindische Kreideformation. Die Nautiliden und Belemniten des Trichinopolydistrikts. Beiträge zur Paläontologie und Geologie Österreich-Ungarns und des Orients 23:125-157 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 166272: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.02.2015

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
Eutrephoceras kummeli Wiedmann 1960 nautiloid
var. indica