Dhedidi South: Lutetian, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Remingtonocetidae
Andrewsiphius sloani (Sahni and Mishra 1972)
see common names

Geography
Country:India State/province:Gujarat
Coordinates: 23.8° North, 68.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:6.1° North, 61.9° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
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: "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:lagoonal
Geology comments: Harudi Formation exhibits a barrier coast environment with lagoons and tidal flats.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:91428
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-09-24 08:48:58 Last modified:2010-09-13 14:27:46
Access level:the public Released:2009-09-24 08:48:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
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]

Secondary references:

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]