Metka Coalfield (Eocene to of India)

Where: Kashmir, India (30.2° N, 74.5° E: paleocoordinates 6.6° N, 68.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Subathu Formation, Ypresian to Ypresian (56.0 - 41.3 Ma)

• Palynological and palynofacies assemblage of the Subathu Formation suggest Ypresian–Lutetian age (Panwar et al. 2021) and also had a suggested depositional age range of depositional age range of ∼44–50 Ma based on U-Pb detrital zircon analysis (Colleps et al. 2020)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; red, calcareous shale

• Maroon calcareous shale (uppermost Subathu Formation)

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Sahni and V.C. Srivastava. 1976. Eocene rodents and associated reptiles from the Subathu Formation of northwestern India. Journal of Paleontology 50(5):922-928 [W. Clyde/L. Gannon/W. Clyde]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 43026: authorized by Will Clyde, entered by Leah Gannon on 09.08.2004

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata -
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia Owen 1842 crocodilian
 Squamata - Anguidae
Rajaurisaurus estesi n. gen. n. sp.
Rajaurisaurus estesi n. gen. n. sp. Sahni and Srivastava 1976 squamates
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Chapattimyidae
"Birbalomys woodi" = Birbalomys woodi, "Metkamys blacki n. gen. n. sp." = Birbalomys woodi
"Birbalomys woodi" = Birbalomys woodi Sahni and Khare 1973 rodent
"Metkamys blacki n. gen. n. sp." = Birbalomys woodi Sahni and Khare 1973 rodent
 Rodentia - Paramyidae
Franimys sp. Wood 1962 rodent