Godhatad Dam: Lutetian, India
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Sirenia
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Sirenia indet.
(Illiger 1811)
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Remingtonocetidae
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Andrewsiphius sloani
(Sahni and Mishra 1972)
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Thewissen and Bajpai 2009 | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | India | State/province: | Gujarat |
| Coordinates: | 23.7° North, 68.7° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 6.1° North, 61.9° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
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: | not reported |
| 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: | 88644 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-04-17 06:58:45 | Last modified: | 2010-09-13 14:27:24 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-04-17 06:58:45 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |
Secondary references:
| 30795 | J. G. M. Thewissen and S. Bajpai. 2009. New skeletal material of Andrewsiphius and Kutchicetus, two Eocene cetaceans from India. Journal of Paleontology 83(5):635-663 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |