Ber Moti village, Kutch (Oligocene of India)

Where: India (23.5° N, 68.6° E: paleocoordinates 15.6° N, 66.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Eupatagus rostratus zone, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• Ber Moti Stage

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone and marl

• Marly lens, 2,5 m in thickness
• Limestone and marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: K. K. Tandon, S. K. Gupta, and R. K. Saxena. 1978. A new species of Lithophyllum from Oligocene of South-Western Kutch. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 21 & 22:74-77 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 143251: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 21.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae