Well 3, Bengal Basin: Lutetian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Ulvophyceae - Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Halimeda sp. Lamouroux 1812
Ulvophyceae - Bryopsidales - Udoteaceae
Ovulites sp. Lamarck 1816
Florideophyceae - Sporolithales - Sporolithaceae
Sporolithon sp. (Rothpletz 1891)
original and current combination Archaeolithothamnium
Florideophyceae - Corallinales - Lithophyllaceae
Lithophyllum sp. Philippi 1837
Florideophyceae - Corallinales - Hydrolithaceae
Lithoporella sp. Foslie 1909
Florideophyceae - Hapalidiales - Mesophyllaceae
Mesophyllum sp. Lemoine 1930
Florideophyceae - Hapalidiales - Lithothamniacae
Lithothamnion sp. Heydrich 1897
see common names

Geography
Country:India State/province:West Bengal County:Howrah
Coordinates: 22.6° North, 88.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.3° South, 78.4° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Lutetian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Lutetian
Age range of interval:47.80000 - 41.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sylhet Limestone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Postgraduate Department of Geology, RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur
Metadata
Database number:215252
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:K. Hassell
Research group:micropaleontology
Created:2020-11-04 12:39:14 Last modified:2020-11-04 12:39:14
Access level:the public Released:2020-11-04 12:39:14
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
74246. S. N. Chaurpagar, S. K. Humane, P. Kundal and S.S. Humane. 2012. Paleoenvironmental implications of the non-geniculate Coralline algae from the Middle Eocene Sylhet Limestone, Bengal Basin. ONGC Bulletin 47(2):50-69 [M. Clapham/K. Hassell]