Sausar (Paleocene of India)

Where: Madhya Pradesh, India (21.7° N, 78.8° E: paleocoordinates 19.5° S, 63.7° E)

When: Early/Lower Paleocene (66.0 - 61.7 Ma)

• near the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary India : ~63 Ma

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; chert

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: T. S. Mahabale. 1950. A species of fossil Salvinia from Deccan lntertrappean series, India. Nature 172(1195) [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 181126: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 21.08.2016, edited by Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

 Fungi -
Fungi indet.
"spores"
Perisporiacites
  -
Perisporiacites varians n. sp. Sahni and Rao 1943
Sordariomycetes
  -
Palaeosordaria lagena n. gen. n. sp.
Palaeosordaria lagena n. gen. n. sp. Sahni and Rao 1943
unclassified
  -
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Polypodiopsida
  -
Polypodiopsida indet. Cronquist et al. 1966
  - Marsileaceae
 Cyatheales - Polypodiidae
cf. Cyatheaceae indet. Kaulfuss 1827 scaly tree fern
 Salviniales - Polypodiidae
Sausarospermum fermori n. gen. n. sp. Sahni and Srivastava 1940
? Azolla sp. Lamarck 1783
Azolla intertrappea n. sp. Sahni and Rao 1934
Salvinia intertrappea n. sp. Mahabale 1950 watermoss
Massulites coelatus n. gen. n. sp. Sahni and Rao 1943
 Charales - Characea
Chara sausari n. sp. Sahni and Rao 1943 stonewort
Chlorophyceae
  -
cf. Ulothrix sp. Kützing 1833