Subathu-Garkhal road: Ypresian - Lutetian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Chondrichthyes
Chondrichthyes indet. Huxley 1880
Mammalia
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758
Reptilia - Testudines
Chelonia indet. (Latreille 1800)
synonym of Testudines
Reptilia - Crocodylia
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Pycnodontidae indet. (Agassiz 1833)
Actinopteri - Tetraodontiformes - Balistidae
Ancistrodon sp. Roemer 1849
replaced by Grypodon
see common names

Geography
Country:India
Coordinates: 31.0° North, 77.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:6.6° North, 70.5° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Ypresian - Lutetian
Age range of interval:56.00000 - 41.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Subathu Member:lower
Stratigraphy comments: Palynological and palynofacies assemblage of the Subathu Formation suggest Ypresian–Lutetian age (Panwar et al. 2021) and also had a suggested depositional age range of depositional age range of ∼44–50 Ma based on U-Pb detrital zircon analysis (Colleps et al. 2020)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red conglomerate
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: fluviatile grit level of the red beds sequence...thin conglomerate
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:94595
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-03-03 10:32:59 Last modified:2022-02-11 04:59:26
Access level:the public Released:2010-03-03 10:32:59
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

32206. A. Sahni, S. B. Bhatia, J.-L. Harteberger, J.-J. Jaeger, K. Kumar, J. Sudre, and M. Vianey-Liaud. 1981. Vertebrates from the Subathu Formation and comments on the biogeography of Indian subcontinent during the early Paleogene. Bulletin of the Geological Society of France 23(6):689-695 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]