Mukurmatia Local, Unit 2, Baripada Beds (Miocene of India)
Where: Orissa, India (21.9° N, 86.7° E: paleocoordinates 15.6° N, 85.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, brown, yellow, sandy limestone
• Yellow to yellowish-brown arenaceous, generally hard, compact, fossiliferous
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 46364: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 11.01.2005
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Taxonomic list
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| unclassified | |
| Globothalamea | |
Nonion baripadaensis n. sp.
Nonion baripadaensis n. sp. | |
| Foraminifera | |
Elphidium ludbrookae n. sp.
Elphidium ludbrookae n. sp. | |
| Gnathostomata | |
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Osteichthyes indet. bony fish
Chondrichthyes indet. Huxley 1880 cartilaginous fish | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Ostrea (Crassostrea) gajensis Vredenburg 1928 oyster | |