Satpautia Local, Unit 1, Baripada Beds: Middle Miocene, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Rhinopristiformes - Pristidae
Pristis aquitanicus Delfortrie 1871
Pristis aquitanicus Delfortrie 1871
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
Galeocerdo aduncus (Agassiz 1835)
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Scyliorhinus sp. Blainville 1816
Scyliorhinus sp. Blainville 1816
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Sphyrnidae
Sphyrna sp. Rafinesque 1810
Sphyrna sp. Rafinesque 1810
Sphyrna lewini (Griffith and Smith 1834)
Sphyrna lewini (Griffith and Smith 1834)
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Rhizoprionodon (Protozygaena) oligolinx
Rhizoprionodon (Protozygaena) oligolinx
Scoliodon laticaudus
Scoliodon laticaudus
Carcharhinus maculipinnis
Hypoprion sp. Muller and Henle 1838
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus hastalis (Agassiz 1838)
recombined as Carcharodon hastalis
Isurus spallanzanii
Isurus spallanzanii
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Alopiidae
Alopias vulpes
see common names

Geography
Country:India State/province:Orissa
Coordinates: 21.9° North, 86.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:15.6° North, 85.7° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Middle Miocene
Age range of interval:15.98000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Lowermost Unit exposed in the area
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,green "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: dark, green to greyish-green, shales
Environment:paralic indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:46343
Authorizer:L. Ivany Enterer:P. Wall
Modifier:P. Wall Research group:marine invertebrate,micropaleontology,vertebrate
Created:2005-01-11 08:05:13 Last modified:2005-01-11 10:05:14
Access level:the public Released:2005-01-11 08:05:12
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

12352. S. N. Bhalla and P. Dev. 1988. Paleoecology of Baripada beds (Middle Miocene), East Coast of India. Bulletin of the Indian Geologists' Association 21(2):141-153 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]