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 | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Galeocerdo latidens Agassiz 1835 tiger shark | |
Mammalia | |
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Reptilia | |
cf. Pristichampsus sp. Gervais 1853 crocodilian |