Baripada Limestone, Baripada, India - Eames (1937): Early/Lower Miocene, India
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Aetobaties arcuatus
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Ghosh 1959 | |||||||||
| baripadensis | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea (Crassostrea) gajensis
Vredenburg 1928
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Montacutidae
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Pristes aquitanicus
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Ghosh 1959 | |||||||||
| spelled with current rank as Thecodonta (Pristes) | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Rajiformes
- Rajidae
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Raja sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Sahni 1979 | |||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Lamnidae
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Isurus spaltenzeni
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Sahni 1979 | |||||||||
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Isurus pagoda
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Sahni 1979 | |||||||||
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Isurus remeshi
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Sahni 1979 | |||||||||
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Carcharodon bigelowi
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Sahni 1979 | |||||||||
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Carcharodon carcharias
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Sahni 1979 | |||||||||
| This species first appeared in the late Miocene (Ehret et al. 2012) and hence, this occurrence is dubious | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
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Carcharodon megalodon
(Agassiz 1835)
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Ghosh 1959 | |||||||||
| recombined as Otodus megalodon | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
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Carchariolamna heroni
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Sahni 1979 | |||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Carchariidae
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Carcharias heptosuspidatus
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Sahni 1979 | |||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Hemigaleidae
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Hemipristis serra
Agassiz 1835
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Ghosh 1959 | |||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Carcharhinidae
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Hypoprion mectoti
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Sahni 1979 | |||||||||
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Scoliodon sp.
Muller and Henle 1837
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Sahni 1979 | |||||||||
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Carcharhinus gangeticus
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Sahni 1979 | |||||||||
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Carcharhinus egertoni
Agassiz 1843
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Ghosh 1959 | |||||||||
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Carcharhinus frequens
(Dames 1883)
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Ghosh 1959 | |||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Rhinopteridae
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Rhinoptera sherborni
White 1926
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Ghosh 1959 | |||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
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Hypolophus sylvestris
White 1931
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Ghosh 1959 | |||||||||
| recombined as Hypolophodon sylvestris | ||||||||||
| mohulivi | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Myliobatidae
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Myliobatis sp.
Cuvier 1816
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Sahni 1979 | |||||||||
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Narcine sp.
Henle 1834
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Sahni 1979 | |||||||||
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= Mobula sp.
Rafinesque 1810
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Cappetta 1987 | |||||||||
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Aetiobatis sp.
(Blainville 1816)
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Sahni 1979 | |||||||||
| original and current combination Aetobatus | ||||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Tetraodontiformes
- Diodontidae
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Diodon sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Sahni 1979 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | India | State/province: | Orissa |
| Coordinates: | 21.9° North, 86.7° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 13.2° North, 84.4° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.03000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Baripada Limestone | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Limestone. Probable that the Baripada Limestone is of Gaj (Lower Miocene) age based on the occurrence of macrofauna, correlatable to Upper Gaj Fm of NW India, and also from Burma. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | brown,yellow lithified "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Yellowish and yellowish-brown limestone. | |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
| Geology comments: Carbonate facies. No paleoenvironmental information reported. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original calcite |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | GSI |
| Collection method comments: Reposited in the Geological Survey of India collections. Registered as #K. 8.341. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:Contains only the one taxa described in the manuscript. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 42842 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy, C. Jaramillo, M. Uhen | Enterer: | A. Hendy, M. Uhen, C. Pimiento |
| Modifier: | C. Pimiento | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-08-05 22:20:07 | Last modified: | 2014-07-12 13:53:53 |
| Access level: | group members | Released: | 2005-08-05 22:20:07 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 11376. | F.E. Eames. 1937. Ostrea (Crassostrea) gajensis from near Baripada, Mayurbhanj State. Records of the Geological Survey of India 71:150-151 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |
Secondary references:
| 30790 | H. Cappetta. 1987. Handbook of Paleoichthyology: Chondrichthyes II Mesozoic and Cenozoic Elasmobranchii 1-193 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Wagner] | |
| 51924 | B. K. Ghosh. 1959. Some fossil fish teeth from the Tertiary deposits of Mayurbhank, India. Journal of Paleontology 33(4):675-679 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento] | |
| 29458 | A. Sahni. 1979. Miocene vertebrates from the coastal Tertiary rocks of peninsular india and Sri Lanka. Geological Survey of India Miscellaneous Publications 45:197-205 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 52099 | A. Sahni and D. K. Mehrotra. 1980. The elasmobranch fauna of coastal Miocene sediments of peninsular India. Biological memoirs 5(2):83-121 [C. Jaramillo/C. Pimiento] |