Where: Orissa, India (21.9° N, 86.7° E: paleocoordinates 13.2° N, 84.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Baripada Limestone Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• Limestone. Probable that the Baripada Limestone is of Gaj (Lower Miocene) age based on the occurrence of macrofauna, correlatable to Upper Gaj Fm of NW India, and also from Burma.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, brown, yellow limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Reposited in the GSI

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Reposited in the Geological Survey of India collections. Registered as #K. 8.341.

Primary reference: F.E. Eames. 1937. Ostrea (Crassostrea) gajensis from near Baripada, Mayurbhanj State. Records of the Geological Survey of India 71:150-151 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42842: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.08.2004, edited by Mark Uhen and Catalina Pimiento

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