Dharampur-Kasauli Road (Eocene of India)

Also known as DKL

Where: Himachal Pradesh, India (20.5° N, 73.2° E: paleocoordinates 3.5° N, 65.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Subanthu Formation, Middle Eocene (48.6 - 37.2 Ma)

• top of the unit is not exposed at this locality, a nearby locality has the youngest green facies bed 15 to 20m below the top of the unit

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; green shale

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: mechanical, sieve,

• matrix disaggregated by boiling in a heavily diluted dtergent, and screen washed, some retrieved by chipping and chiseling in the field

Primary reference: K. Kumar and R. S. Loyal. 1987. Eocene ichthyofauna from the Subathu Formation, Northwestern Himalaya, India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 32:60-84 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31026: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 07.04.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam
Chondrichthyes
 Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
Galeocerdo latidens Agassiz 1835 tiger shark
Mammalia
 Placentalia -
Rodentia indet. Bowdich 1821 rodent
incisor fragments
Reptilia
 Loricata -
cf. Pristichampsus sp. Gervais 1853 crocodilian