Where: Gujarat, India (23.7° N, 68.7° E: paleocoordinates 10.3° N, 62.9° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Panandhro Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• "..snake bearing silty shales form part of the Panandhro Formation of Saraswati & Banerjee (1984) or its broadly correlatable unit designated as Naredi Formation by Biswas (1992) (pg. 696)."
•Previously Early Eocene, but foraminiferal biostratography suggests a Bartonian age (Saraswati et al. 2014)
Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; poorly lithified, silty shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (float), mechanical,
Primary reference: J.-C. Rage, S. Bajpai, J. G. M. Thewissen and B. N. Tiwari. 2003. Early Eocene snakes from Kutch, western India, with a review of the Palaeophiidae. Geodiversitas 25(4):695-716 [J. Head/J. Head/J. Head]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 48075: authorized by Jason Head, entered by Jason Head on 12.03.2005
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