Vinjhan Limestone: Bryozoa and associated species: Burdigalian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Austrotrillinidae
Austrotrillina howchini
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Soritidae
Archaias kirkukensis
Taberina malabarica Carter 1853
Sorites marginalis
Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Miogypsinidae
Miogypsina irregularis
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Onychocellidae
Ogivalia vinjhanensis n. sp.
unclassified
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae
Metaxytherium sp. de Christol 1840
Savage and Tewari 1977
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Hypoprion sp. Muller and Henle 1838
Savage and Tewari 1977
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes
Carchariolamna sp. Hora 1939
Savage and Tewari 1977
unclassified
Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754
see common names

Geography
Country:India State/province:Gujarat
Coordinates: 23.1° North, 69.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:17.8° North, 68.3° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Burdigalian
Age range of interval:20.44000 - 15.97000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: the bed has been referred to the Upper Gaj (Burdigalian) age
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal,brown "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: highly fossiliferous brown limestone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:numerous molluscs and echinoderms are reported to be present
Metadata
Also known as:Bryozoa and associated species from a highly fossiliferous brown limestone outcropping east of Vinjhan, Kutch, Gujarat, India
Database number:46308
Authorizer:L. Ivany, M. Uhen Enterer:P. Wall, M. Uhen
Modifier:P. Wall Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-01-10 11:02:34 Last modified:2005-01-10 13:02:35
Access level:the public Released:2005-01-10 11:02:33
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

12340. B. S. Tewari and I.P. Srivastava. 1967. On Some Fossil Bryozoa From India. Journal of the Geological Society of India 8:18-28 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]

Secondary references:

13722 R. J. G. Savage and B. S. Tewari. 1977. A new sirenian from Kutch, India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 20:216-218 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]