Badlands east of Karai village (Cretaceous of India)

Where: India (11.1° N, 78.9° E: paleocoordinates 47.9° S, 42.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Karai Formation, Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the WAM

Primary reference: G. W. Kendrick and A. V. Vartak. 2007. Middle Cretaceous (Cenomanian) bivalves from the Karai Formation, Uttattur Group, of the Cauvery Basin, south India. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 72:1-101 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 228378: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.12.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Pycnodonte vesiculosa" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis vesiculosa Sowerby 1822 oyster