Mahulia Local, Unit 3, Baripada Beds: Middle Miocene, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Myliobatis sp. Cuvier 1816
Chondrichthyes - Rhinopristiformes - Pristidae
Pristis aquitanicus Delfortrie 1871
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinus collata
Hypoprion horai
Scoliodon laticaudus
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Sphyrnidae
Sphyrna lewini (Griffith and Smith 1834)
see common names

Geography
Country:India State/province:Orissa
Coordinates: 21.9° North, 86.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:15.6° North, 85.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
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
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:planar lamination,gray,green "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Shale: Grey to greyish-green finely laminated, splintry at places, fossiliferous
Environment:paralic indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:46366
Authorizer:L. Ivany Enterer:P. Wall
Modifier:P. Wall Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-01-11 10:28:40 Last modified:2007-12-03 16:36:25
Access level:the public Released:2005-01-11 10:28:40
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]