Baba Bharti Temple (Jurassic of India)

Where: Rajasthan, India (26.9° N, 71.0° E: paleocoordinates 22.9° S, 37.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fort Member (Jaisalmer Formation), Middle Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• corals are scattered and reworked and never formed reefal structures

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: D. K. Pandey, F. T. Fürsich, and R. Baron-Szabo. 2009. Jurassic corals from the Jaisalmer Basin, western Rajasthan, India. Zitteliana A 48/49:13-37 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92942: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.12.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
"Cryptocoenia hexaphyllia" = Adelocoenia hexaphyllia, Stylina cf. girodi
"Cryptocoenia hexaphyllia" = Adelocoenia hexaphyllia d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral
Stylina cf. girodi Etallon 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Trochoplegma sp.
Trochoplegma sp. Gregory 1900 stony coral