Pandhari, Lameta Fm (Cretaceous of India)

Where: Maharashtra, India (21.4° N, 77.6° E: paleocoordinates 25.4° S, 60.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Lameta Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: coastal; limestone

• thin, discontinued beds of micritic limestone preserved in the lower argillaceous part of the succession.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: A. K. Srivastava, N. K. Kandwal, S. K. Humane, S. S. Humane, P. Kundal and N. Khare. 2018. Record of calcareous algae from the Lameta Formation: a new insight for possible sea incursion during the Maastrichtian time. Arabian Journal of Geosciences [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 191528: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 31.01.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Lithoporella sp.
Lithoporella sp. Foslie 1909
 Sporolithales - Corallinophycidae
Sporolithon sp.
Sporolithon sp. Rothpletz 1891
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Triploporellaceae
Acroporella sp., Trinocladus radoicicae, Trinocladus sp.
Acroporella sp. Praturlon 1964
Trinocladus sp. Raineri 1922
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Dissocladella undulata, Dissocladella sp.
 Dasycladales - Polyphysaceae
Clypeina sp.
Clypeina sp. Michelin 1845
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Udoteaceae
Ovulites sp.
Ovulites sp. Lamarck 1816
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Halimeda sp., Halimeda cylindracea
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812
Halimeda cylindracea Decaisne 1842
 Charales - Characea
Microchara sp.
Microchara sp. Grambast 1959