Matanomadh village (Paleocene of India)

Where: Gujarat, India (23.5° N, 69.0° E: paleocoordinates 10.4° S, 57.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Matanomadh Formation, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; gray sandstone and green, silty claystone

• gray coarse-grained sand, greenish gray silty clay, laterite and tuffs.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: D. Chattopadhyay. 2004. New record of a coral-mollusca reefal community from the early tertiary of Kutch, Gujarat. Indian Minerals 58(3):169-182 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 171803: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 20.07.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Astreopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Alveopora aff. verrilliana Dana 1872 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
Actinastrea sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Columastreidae
Columastrea sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Goniastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Goniastrea matanomadhensis Chattopadhyay 2004 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia madhuwalensis Chattopadhyay 2004 stony coral
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella cf. mortoni" = Kapalmerella mortoni, Turritella "sp. A"
"Turritella cf. mortoni" = Kapalmerella mortoni Conrad 1830 turret shell
Turritella "sp. A" Lamarck 1799 turret shell
 Cerithioidea - Batillariidae
? Pyrazus sp. Monfort 1810 snail
 Pseudomelanoidea - Pseudomelaniidae
Bourguetia sp. Deshayes 1871 snail
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Crassostrea virginica Gmelin 1791 oyster
Flemingostrea sp. Vredenburg 1916 oyster
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina sp. Bruguière 1797 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam