Also known as Reef 3120
Where: India (23.7° N, 68.8° E: paleocoordinates 14.1° N, 65.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Coral Limestone Member (Maniyara Fort Formation), Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
• Upper part of early Oligocene
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified framestone and lithified floatstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Corals up to 2.5 m in largest diameter
Primary reference: M. Mohanti and S. C. Srivastava. 1994. Oligocene reefal environment of Kutch Basin (western India) with implications of the Mediterranean connection. Géologie Méditerranéenne 21(3-4):127-129 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34484: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 03.09.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
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Stylophora sp. Schweigger 1819 stony coral | |
Poritidae indet. Gray 1840 stony coral | |
Hydnophora sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1807 stony coral | |
Faviidae indet. Gregory 1900 stony coral | |
Bryozoa | |
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Polychaeta | |
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Bivalvia | |
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Florideophyceae | |
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