Physa from Deccan Infra-trappean (Cretaceous to of India)

Where: Andhra Pradesh, India (17.7° N, 77.8° E: paleocoordinates 33.8° S, 55.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Campanian to Campanian (83.6 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: gray, white marl

• a thin greyish white marl bed is observed below the earliest flow and is highly fossiliferous

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. Ayyasamy, V. Ganesan, and C.V.L. Narasimham. 1985. A new species of the genus Physa from the Deccan infra-trappean beds of Andhra Pradesh, India. Journal of the Geological Society of India 26(10):744-750 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 46496: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 14.01.2005

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Physidae
Physa tirpolensis n. sp. snail