Visavara village (Miocene to of India)

Where: Gujarat, India (21.8° N, 69.5° E: paleocoordinates 16.7° N, 68.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dwarka Formation, Early/Lower Miocene to Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

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 137529: 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
Calliarthron antiquum Johnson 1957
Corallina hayasaki Ishijima 1954
Corallina typica Ishijima 1954
Neogoniolithon sp. Setchell and Mason 1943