Waghapadar: Lutetian, India
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Sirenia
- Protosirenidae
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Sirenia indet.
(Illiger 1811)
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= Ashokia antiqua n. gen., n. sp.
Bajpai et al. 2009
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Bajpai et al. 2009 | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | India | State/province: | Gujarat |
| Coordinates: | 23.5° North, 68.8° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 5.9° North, 61.8° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Lutetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Lutetian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 47.80000 - 41.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Harudi | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: late Lutetian (Ravikant & Bajpai, 2010) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: gypsified clay | |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 88643 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-04-17 06:50:05 | Last modified: | 2010-09-13 14:27:06 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-04-17 06:50:05 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 29736. | P. K. Basu, D. P. Das, and T. C. Lahiri. 1991. Study of fossil marine palaeogene mammals of Gujarat. Records of the Geological Society of Inida 124(2):9-10 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 30236 | S. Bajpai, D. P. Domning, D. P. Das and V. P. Mishra. 2009. A new middle Eocene sirenian (Mammalia, Protosirenidae) from India. Neus Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Geologie, und Palaeontologie 252/3:257-267 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 17794 | S. Bajpai, J. G. M. Thewissen, V. V. Kapur, B. N. Tiwari, and A. Sahni. 2006. Eocene and Oligocene sirenians (Mammalia) from Kachchh, India. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(2):400-410 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |