Panandhro Mine, Channel Pit (Eocene of India)

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

• Locality is a pit within the Panandhro lignite mines.

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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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Palaeophiidae
Pterosphenus sp. Lucas 1898 snake
RUSB 2790-22 to 2790-28, 7 vertebrae
Pterosphenus kutchensis Rage et al. 2003 snake
RUSB 2790-1 to 2790-20, 20 vertebrae
Pterosphenus biswasi Rage et al. 2003 snake
RUSB 2790-21, single vertebra
 Squamata -
Colubroidea indet. Oppel 1811 snake
RUSB 2790-29, one trunk vertebra