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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Perisporiacites | |
Perisporiacites varians n. sp.
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 | |
cf. Regnellidium sp. Lindman | |
cf. Cyatheaceae indet. Kaulfuss 1827 scaly tree fern | |
Sausarospermum fermori n. gen. n. sp., ? Azolla sp., Azolla intertrappea n. sp., Salvinia intertrappea n. sp., Massulites coelatus n. gen. n. sp.
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 | |
Chara sausari n. sp.
Chara sausari n. sp. Sahni and Rao 1943 stonewort | |
Chlorophyceae | |
cf. Ulothrix sp. Kützing 1833 |