Sair West OBL: Ypresian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Tetraodontiformes - Eotrigonodontidae
Stephanodus libycus
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea indet. Linnaeus 1758
see common names

Geography
Country:India State/province:Jammu and Kashmir County:Rajauri District
Coordinates: 32.5° North, 75.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:5.4° North, 69.1° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Ypresian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Early/Lower Eocene
Key time interval:Ypresian
Age range of interval:56.00000 - 47.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Subathu Local bed:OBLH (Oyster-bearing Limestone of Lower Subathu)
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Disassociated minor elements:all
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:allochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:OBLH, SWL
Database number:31301
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:E. Leckey
Modifier:E. Leckey Research group:marine invertebrate,vertebrate
Created:2003-05-01 13:51:51 Last modified:2003-05-01 16:52:24
Access level:the public Released:2003-05-01 13:51:51
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]