Dharampur-Kasauli Road: Middle Eocene, India
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella sp.
Lamarck 1799
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Kumar et al. 1997 | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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Corbula sp.
Bruguière 1789
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Kumar et al. 1997 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
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Rodentia indet.
Bowdich 1821
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Kumar et al. 1997 | |||||||||
| incisor fragments | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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cf. Pristichampsus sp.
Gervais 1853
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Kumar et al. 1997 | |||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Eusuchia | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Galeocerdidae
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Galeocerdo latidens
(Agassiz 1835)
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1 element | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | India | State/province: | Himachal Pradesh | County: | Solan District |
| Coordinates: | 20.5° North, 73.2° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 3.5° North, 65.1° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Altitude: | 73 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2-3 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Middle Eocene |
| Key time interval: | Middle Eocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 47.80000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Subanthu | Local bed: | OGSH (olive green shale) | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: top of the unit is not exposed at this locality, a nearby locality has the youngest green facies bed 15 to 20m below the top of the unit | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | green "shale" |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
| Articulated whole bodies: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | many |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | mechanical,sieve,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: matrix disaggregated by boiling in a heavily diluted dtergent, and screen washed, some retrieved by chipping and chiseling in the field | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | DKL | ||
| Database number: | 31026 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | E. Leckey |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | marine invertebrate,vertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-04-07 12:21:26 | Last modified: | 2006-08-13 18:12:18 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-04-07 12:21:26 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 8420. | K. Kumar and R. S. Loyal. 1987. Eocene ichthyofauna from the Subathu Formation, Northwestern Himalaya, India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 32:60-84 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 8377 | 5% 3320 | K. Kumar, R. S. Loyal, and R. Srivastava. 1997. Eocene rodents from new localities in Himachal Pradesh, northwest Himalaya, India: biochrolologic implications. Journal Geological Society of India 50:461-474 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey] |