Tadkeshwar Lignite Mine (TAD-2) (Eocene of India)

Where: Gujarat, India (21.3° N, 73.1° E: paleocoordinates 4.3° S, 63.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cambay Shale Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Situated about 3-4 m below Lignite seam 1

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lenticular sandstone

• lenticular, dark, sandy deposit

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: T. Smith, K. Kumar, R. S. Rana, A. Folie, F. Solé, C. Noiret, T. Steeman, A. Sahni, and K. D. Rose. 2016. New early Eocene vertebrate assemblage from western India reveals a mixed fauna of European and Gondwana affinities. Geoscience Frontiers 7(6):969-1001 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180566: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 21.07.2016, edited by Patricia Holroyd

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Palaeophiidae
Palaeophis vastaniensis Bajpai and Head 2008 snake
WIF/A 2349, WIF/A 2350, WIF/A 2356-WIF/A 2360, GU/RSR/TAD 9556
Mammalia
 Cimolesta - Esthonychidae
Indoesthonyx suratensis Smith et al. 2016 tillodont
WIF/A 4225
cf. Indoesthonyx suratensis Smith et al. 2016 tillodont
WIF/A 4226-4230
 Cimolesta - Coryphodontidae
cf. Coryphodontidae indet. Marsh 1876 pantodont
GU/RSR/TAD 9204
 Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Indohyaenodon raoi Bajpai et al. 2009 creodont
GU/RSR/TAD 9000 and WIF/A 4209
 Perissodactyla -
Cambaytherium gracilis n. sp. Smith et al. 2016 odd-toed ungulate
GU/RSR/TAD 9001 - type; hypodigm: WIF/A 4210-4215, WIF/A 4235-4246
Cambaytherium thewissi Bajpai et al. 2005 odd-toed ungulate
GU/RSR/TAD 9002, GU/RSR/TAD 9202, WIF/A 1200, WIF/A 4217, WIF/A 4219-4224, WIF/A 4232-4234, WIF/A 4216 and WIF/A 4218
 Primates - Notharctidae
Marcgodinotius indicus Bajpai et al. 2005 primate
WIF/A 4231
Asiadapis tapiensis n. sp.1 Rose et al. 2018 primate
GU/RSR/TAD 9239 - holotype
 Theriamorpha -
Pahelia mysteriosa n. gen. n. sp.2
Pahelia mysteriosa n. gen. n. sp.2 Zack et al. 2019 placental
GU/RSR/TAD 9201 - holotype