Maniyara Fort, Bermoti, upper part (Oligocene of India)

Where: India (23.5° N, 68.6° E: paleocoordinates 15.6° N, 66.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Coral Limestone Member (Maniyara Fort Formation), Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• Lower part of Coral Limestone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• patch reefs interfingering with fine-grained fossiliferous platy limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Harzhauser et al in 2008; reposited in the NHMW

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: M. Harzhauser and colleagues, c. 2007-2008. REPOSITORY: NHMW, Vienna.

Primary reference: M. Reuter, W. E. Piller, M. Harzhauser and A. Kroh. 2013. Cyclone trends constrain monsoon variability during late Oligocene sea level highstands (Kachchh Basin, NW India). Climate of the Past (9)2101-2115 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 152419: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 21.11.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropods; few bivalves mentioned. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
unclassified
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Foraminifera
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
Nummulites sp. Lamarck 1801
 Orbitoidacea - Lepidocyclinidae
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Bairdia sp. M'Coy 1844 ostracod
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Aequipecten sp. Fischer 1886 scallop
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardiidae indet. Lamarck 1809 cockle
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellinidae indet. Blainville 1814 tellin clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucinoma sp. Dall 1901 clam
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
 Clypeasteroida - Fibulariidae
Echinocyamus bernaniensis sand dollar
abundant specimens
 Spatangoida - Brissidae
Eupatagus sp. Agassiz 1847 heart urchin
rare specimens