Where: Maharashtra, India (21.2° N, 79.1° E: paleocoordinates 24.9° S, 61.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Takli Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Intertrappean beds within Deccan Traps; the informal "Takli Formation" is Maastrichtian in age based on on palynology, vertebrate, and ostracod fauna. Bed is "only a few inches thick" at Takli (Hislop & Hunter, 1855).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; lithified siltstone
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by S. Hislop, R. Hunter in 1851
Primary reference: A. Murray. 1860. Notes on some fossil insects from Nagpur. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 16:182-186 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 119660: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 30.10.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Palaeotanymecides hislopi n. gen. n. sp. Mani 1947 snout beetle Presumably one of Curculionidae in Murray 1860
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? Buprestidae indet., Lomatus hislopi n. gen. n. sp.
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