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