ACC quarry, Ratanpur village (Pleistocene to of India)

Where: Gujarat, India (21.6° N, 69.6° E: paleocoordinates 21.6° N, 69.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chaya Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene to Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sand shoal; grainstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: S. N. Mude and P. Kundal. 2012. Additional Coralline Algae from the Lower Miocene to Late Holocene Sediments of the Porbandar Group, Gujarat. Journal Geological Society of India 79:69-76 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 137528: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 17.12.2012, edited by Mihaela Krause

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Taxonomic list

• Only algae are described
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Amphiroa "sp. 2" Lamoroux 1812
Jania vetus Johnson 1957
"Jania mengaudi" = Arthrocardia mengaudii Lemoine 1934
 Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
Melobesioideae "sp. 1" Bizzozero 1885
Melobesioideae "sp. 2" Bizzozero 1885