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

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae
Dasyatis sp. Rafinesque 1810
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinus collata
Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Nonionidae
Nonion baripadaensis n. sp.
Florilus scaphus
var. mesonensis
Rotaliidae
Ammonia annectens
? Ammonia sp. Bruennich 1772
Elphidiidae
Elphidium ludbrookae n. sp.
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
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
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,green sandy "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Dark green to greyish-green, sandy towards top at places, fossiliferous
Environment:paralic indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:46356
Authorizer:L. Ivany Enterer:P. Wall
Modifier:P. Wall Research group:micropaleontology,vertebrate
Created:2005-01-11 08:27:36 Last modified:2005-01-11 10:27:37
Access level:the public Released:2005-01-11 08:27:35
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]