near Zemabawk, Upper Bhuban (Miocene of India)

Where: India (23.7° N, 92.7° E: paleocoordinates 17.3° N, 93.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Bhuban Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• Latest early to earliest middle Miocene. Tf 1 interval of the East Indies Letter Clasification

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; sandstone and siltstone

• shell limestone in a sequence of calcareous sandstone, siltstone and mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: A. K. Jauhri, B. D. Mandaokar, R. C. Mehrotra, R. P. Tiwari, and A. P. Singh. 2003. Corals and foraminifera from the Miocene (Upper Bhuban Formation) of Mizoram, India. Jouranl of the Palaeontological Society of India 48:135-138 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 146871: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 01.07.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiasteridae indet.
Hemiasteridae indet. Clark 1917 heart urchin
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
? Platytrochus sp.
? Platytrochus sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Rhizangiidae
Septastrea cf. forebesi
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Alveolinidae
Alveolinidae indet.
Alveolinidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
 Miliolida - Soritidae
Pseudotaberina malabarica