Where: India (23.5° N, 68.6° E: paleocoordinates 15.6° N, 66.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bermoti Member (Maniyara Fort Formation), Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• From a 40 cm-thick bed. The presence of Nummulites fichteli, N. aff. vascus, N. sublaevigatus and Eulepidina dilatata indicates an early Chattian age (SBZ22b of Cahuzac and Poignant, 1997) for the lower part of the Coral Limestone Member, while the absence of Nummulites and the presence of E. dilatata suggest a late Chattian age (SBZ23 of Cahuzac and Poignant, 1997) for the upper part of the Bermoti Member.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; dolomitic, shelly/skeletal, sandy rudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Harzhauser et al in 2008; reposited in the NHMW

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: M. Harzhauser and colleagues, c. 2007-2008. REPOSITORY: NHMW, Vienna.

Primary reference: M. Reuter, W. E. Piller, M. Harzhauser and A. Kroh. 2013. Cyclone trends constrain monsoon variability during late Oligocene sea level highstands (Kachchh Basin, NW India). Climate of the Past (9)2101-2115 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 152420: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 21.11.2013

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