Where: Himachal Pradesh, India (31.0° N, 77.0° E: paleocoordinates 8.5° N, 70.9° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Subathu Formation, Early/Lower Eocene to Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 37.2 Ma)
• Unit B is 200 ft thick, specific fossil horizon not indicated
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; burrowed, concretionary, shelly/skeletal, red, calcareous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace
Primary reference: A. Ranga Rao and V. N. Misra. 1983. On the new Eocene mammal localities in the Himalayan foot-hills. Himalayan Geology 11:422-428 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 31108: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 14.04.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Planorbis sp. Muller 1774 snail | |
Reptilia | |
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia Owen 1842 crocodilian | |
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle | |
Mammalia | |
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758 mammal | |
Perissodactyla indet. Owen 1848 odd-toed ungulate |