8395/02 (Pleistocene of India)

Where: Andaman Islands, India (11.8° N, 93.0° E: paleocoordinates 10.7° N, 93.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Neil West Coast Formation, Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; limestone

• Lithologically, the sediments of Neil West Coast Formation are

•dominated by yellow to buff coloured calcareous, moderate to unevenly

•sorted limestone with a sandwich layer of thinly laminated porous

•hard calcareous limestone

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India

Primary reference: A. Chakraborty, A.K. Ghosh, and A. Mazumder. 2017. Facies Analysis of Pleistocene Limestones from Neil West Coast Formation, Neil Island, Ritchie’s Archipelago of South Andaman, India. Journal Geological Society of India 90:428-436 [M. Clapham/K. Hassell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 222376: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Keenan Hassell on 23.09.2021

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Foraminifera
 Globigerinoidea - Globigerinidae
Globigerinoides sp.
Globigerinoides sp. Cushman 1927
Florideophyceae
 Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
Lithothamnion pustulatum