Subathu locality B (Eocene to of India)

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

• Mauve/red siltstone and shale with calcareous nodules and pipe casts

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
 Heterostropha - Planorbidae
Planorbis sp. Muller 1774 snail
Reptilia
 Loricata -
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia Owen 1842 crocodilian
 Testudines -
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle
Mammalia
  -
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758 mammal
 Placentalia -
Perissodactyla indet. Owen 1848 odd-toed ungulate