Neil Island 3 (Pleistocene of India)

Where: Andaman Islands, India (11.8° N, 93.0° E: paleocoordinates 11.3° N, 93.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Upper Limestone Member (Neill West Coast Formation), Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; limestone

• It is a buff coloured, fossiliferous, argillaceous, limestone containing corals, foraminifera, and coralline algae

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by Kishore

Primary reference: S. Kishore, A.K. Jauhri, B. Malakar and P.K. Misra. 2015. Coralline algae from the Neill West Coast Formation (Pleistocene), Neil Island, South Andaman, India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 60(2):57-69 [M. Clapham/K. Hassell/K. Hassell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 221977: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Keenan Hassell on 03.09.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Titanoderma pustulatum Lamouroux 1816
Jania sp. Lamoroux 1812
Corallina sp. Linnaeus 1758
 Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
Mesophyllum obsitum Airoldi 1932
 Sporolithales - Corallinophycidae
Sporolithon kuboiensis Iryu et al. 2009