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
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
unclassified | |
Foraminifera | |
Nummulites sp. Lamarck 1801 | |
Lepidocyclinidae indet. Scheffen 1932 | |
Anthozoa | |
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral | |
Ostracoda | |
Bairdia sp. M'Coy 1844 ostracod | |
Bivalvia | |
Aequipecten sp. Fischer 1886 scallop | |
Cardiidae indet. Lamarck 1809 cockle | |
Tellinidae indet. Blainville 1814 tellin clam | |
Lucinoma sp. Dall 1901 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
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