Where: Kashmir, India (30.2° N, 74.5° E: paleocoordinates 6.6° N, 68.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Subathu Formation, Ypresian to Ypresian (56.0 - 41.3 Ma)
• Palynological and palynofacies assemblage of the Subathu Formation suggest Ypresian–Lutetian age (Panwar et al. 2021) and also had a suggested depositional age range of depositional age range of ∼44–50 Ma based on U-Pb detrital zircon analysis (Colleps et al. 2020)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; red, calcareous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. Sahni and V.C. Srivastava. 1976. Eocene rodents and associated reptiles from the Subathu Formation of northwestern India. Journal of Paleontology 50(5):922-928 [W. Clyde/L. Gannon/W. Clyde]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 43026: authorized by Will Clyde, entered by Leah Gannon on 09.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia Owen 1842 crocodilian | |
Rajaurisaurus estesi n. gen. n. sp.
Rajaurisaurus estesi n. gen. n. sp. Sahni and Srivastava 1976 squamates | |
Mammalia | |
"Birbalomys woodi" = Birbalomys woodi, "Metkamys blacki n. gen. n. sp." = Birbalomys woodi
"Birbalomys woodi" = Birbalomys woodi Sahni and Khare 1973 rodent
"Metkamys blacki n. gen. n. sp." = Birbalomys woodi Sahni and Khare 1973 rodent | |
Franimys sp. Wood 1962 rodent |