Kallankurichchi (Cretaceous of India)
Where: Tamil Nadu, India (11.1° N, 79.1° E: paleocoordinates 35.3° S, 56.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kallankurichchi Formation (Ariyalur Group), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, sandy limestone
• reef bank facies
Primary reference: K. Ayyasami. 1989. Genus Anisomyon (Gastropoda) from the Cretaceous of Southern India. Journal of the Geological Society of India 33(4):361-364 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 46507: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 14.01.2005, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
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Taxonomic list
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unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Anisomyon indicus n. sp.
Anisomyon indicus n. sp. pulmonate | |
Bivalvia | |
"Alectryonia pectinata" = Ostrea (Alectryonia)
"Alectryonia pectinata" = Ostrea (Alectryonia) oyster | |
"Ostrea vesicularis" = Pycnodonta vesicularis
"Ostrea vesicularis" = Pycnodonta vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster | |
Inoceramus bulbus clam
Inoceramus tamulicus clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhynchonella sp. Fischer 1809 | |
Rectithyris subdepressa Stoliczka 1872 | |
Foraminifera | |