Limestone Intercalations of Dras Volcanics (Cretaceous to of India)

Where: Jammu and Kashmir, India (34.4° N, 75.8° E: paleocoordinates 34.8° S, 50.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Barremian to Barremian (129.4 - 113.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified volcaniclastic sediments and lithified, lenticular limestone

• "Dras volcanics consist of purple and bright green tuffaceous shales, reddish agglomerates, lava flows and laminated shaly ash beds. The basic volcanics are intruded by serpentinites and peridotites. Intercalated with the volcanic roacks are lenticulare bands of limestone.

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: V.D. Mamgain and B.R. Jagannatha Rao. 1965. Orbitolines from the limestone intercalations of Dras Volcanics, Jammu and Kashmir State. Journal of the Geological Society of India 6:122-129 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46157: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 06.01.2005

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Foraminifera
 Orbitolinacea - Orbitolinidae
"Orbitolina discoidea" = Orbitolina discoideaconoidea
"Orbitolina discoidea" = Orbitolina discoideaconoidea Gras 1852
var. delicata
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
"? Fulguraria sp." = Fulgoraria
"? Fulguraria sp." = Fulgoraria Schumacher 1817 volute
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pecten sp. Müller 1776 scallop
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
unclassified
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