Satpautia Local, Unit 1, Baripada Beds (Miocene of India)
Where: Orissa, India (21.9° N, 86.7° E: paleocoordinates 15.6° N, 85.7° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• Lowermost Unit exposed in the area
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: paralic; gray, green shale
• dark, green to greyish-green, shales
Primary reference: S. N. Bhalla and P. Dev. 1988. Paleoecology of Baripada beds (Middle Miocene), East Coast of India. Bulletin of the Indian Geologists' Association 21(2):141-153 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 46343: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 11.01.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes | |
Scyliorhinus sp. Blainville 1816 cat shark | |
Sphyrna sp. Rafinesque 1810 hammerhead shark
Sphyrna lewini Griffith and Smith 1834 hammerhead shark | |
Galeocerdo aduncus Agassiz 1835 tiger shark | |
Hypoprion sp., Rhizoprionodon (Protozygaena) oligolinx, Carcharhinus maculipinnis, Scoliodon laticaudus
Hypoprion sp. Muller and Henle 1838 requiem shark
Rhizoprionodon (Protozygaena) oligolinx sharpnose shark
Carcharhinus maculipinnis requiem shark
Scoliodon laticaudus requiem shark | |
Isurus spallanzanii, "Isurus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis
Isurus spallanzanii mackerel shark
"Isurus hastalis" = Carcharodon hastalis Agassiz 1838 white shark | |
Alopias vulpes thresher shark | |
Pristis aquitanicus Delfortrie 1871 sawfish |