Mukurmatia Local, Unit 3, Baripada Beds (Miocene of India)

Where: Orissa, India (21.9° N, 86.7° E: paleocoordinates 15.6° N, 85.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: paralic; gray, green shale

• Grey to greyish-green finely laminated, splintry at places, fossiliferous

Primary reference: S. N. Bhalla and P. Dev. 1988. Paleoecology of Baripada beds (Middle Miocene), East Coast of India. Bulletin of the Indian Geologists' Association 21(2):141-153 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46365: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 11.01.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Buliminoidea - Buliminidae
Buliminella curta Cushman 1925
curta
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Cibicididae
Cibicides sp. Monfort 1808
 Rotaliida - Nonionidae
Foraminifera
 Rotalioidea - Elphidiidae
 Globigerinoidea - Globigerinidae
 Discorbacea - Bagginidae
Cancris auriculus Fichtel and Moll 1798
 Rotaliina - Fursenkoinidae
Fursenkoina cf. dubia
var. robusta
 Rotaliina - Bolivinidae
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea indet. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
"Ostrea promensis" = Ostrea (Ostrea) promensis Noetling 1901 oyster
Chondrichthyes
 Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Rhinoptera raeburni White 1934 cownose ray
 Myliobatiformes - Aetobatidae
Aetobatus irregularis Agassiz 1843 stingray
 Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae
Dasyatis sp. Rafinesque 1810 whiptail stingray
 Hexanchiformes - Hexanchidae
Hexanchus sp. Rafinesque 1810 sixgill shark
 Rhinopristiformes - Pristidae
Pristis aquitanicus Delfortrie 1871 sawfish
 Carcharhiniformes - Triakidae
 Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Hypoprion macloti requiem shark
Carcharhinus frequens Dames 1883 requiem shark
Carcharhinus cf. egertoni Agassiz 1843 requiem shark
Scoliodon laticaudus requiem shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
Galeocerdo aduncus Agassiz 1835 tiger shark
 Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus pagoda mackerel shark
 Lamniformes -
Carchariolamna heroni mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon
Actinopteri
 Scombriformes - Trichiuridae
 Acanthopteri - Sphyraenidae