Panandhro Mine, Channel Pit: Bartonian, India
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Palaeophiidae
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Pterosphenus sp.
Lucas 1898
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7 specimens | |||||||||
| RUSB 2790-22 to 2790-28, 7 vertebrae | ||||||||||
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Pterosphenus kutchensis
Rage et al. 2003
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20 specimens | |||||||||
| RUSB 2790-1 to 2790-20, 20 vertebrae | ||||||||||
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Pterosphenus biswasi
Rage et al. 2003
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| RUSB 2790-21, single vertebra | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Colubroidea indet.
Oppel 1811
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| RUSB 2790-29, one trunk vertebra | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | India | State/province: | Gujarat | County: | Kutch |
| Coordinates: | 23.7° North, 68.7° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 10.3° North, 62.9° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Bartonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
| Key time interval: | Bartonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 41.20000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Panandhro | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "..snake bearing silty shales form part of the Panandhro Formation of Saraswati & Banerjee (1984) or its broadly correlatable unit designated as Naredi Formation by Biswas (1992) (pg. 696)."
Previously Early Eocene, but foraminiferal biostratography suggests a Bartonian age (Saraswati et al. 2014) |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | poorly lithified silty "shale" |
| Environment: | mire/swamp |
| Geology comments: Locality is a pit within the Panandhro lignite mines. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Abundance in sediment: | few |
| Disassociated major elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),mechanical,field collection |
| Collection size: | 28 |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 48075 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Head | Enterer: | J. Head |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-03-12 14:15:40 | Last modified: | 2022-04-27 10:06:04 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-03-12 14:15:40 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 12867. | J.-C. Rage, S. Bajpai, J. G. M. Thewissen and B. N. Tiwari. 2003. Early Eocene snakes from Kutch, western India, with a review of the Palaeophiidae. Geodiversitas 25(4):695-716 [J. Head/J. Head/J. Head] |