Mawsynram village (Paleocene of India)

Where: Meghalaya, India (25.2° N, 91.6° E: paleocoordinates 12.3° S, 78.7° E)

When: Lakadong Limestone Member (Sylhet Formation), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; gray limestone

• Hard, compact, fossiliferous limestone rich in larger foraminifera

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: Repository unknown

Primary reference: K. Kalita and B. Gogoi. 2006. First report of coralline red algae in the late Paleocene Lakadong Limestones of Mawsynram area, Meghalaya. Journal Geological Society of India 68:779-783 [M. Clapham/K. Hassell/K. Hassell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 214602: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Keenan Hassell on 11.10.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Archaeolithothamnium sp., Lithoporella melobesioides, Distichoplax raoi, Distichoplax biserialis, Amphiroa sp., Corallina sp., Jania occidentalis
Archaeolithothamnium sp. Rothpletz 1891
Distichoplax biserialis Dieterich 1927
Amphiroa sp. Lamoroux 1812
Corallina sp. Linnaeus 1758
Jania occidentalis Johnson and Kaska 1965
 Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
Mesophyllum meghalayensis
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Hauerinidae
Triloculina sp., Quinqueloculina sp.
Triloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Quinqueloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
 Miliolida - Fabulariidae
Periloculina sp.
 Miliolida - Alveolinidae
Glomalveolina sp.
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Textularia sp.
Textularia sp. Defrance 1824
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Biloculina sp.
Biloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
Ranikothalia sp., Operculina sp., Nummulites sp.
Ranikothalia sp. Caudri 1944
Nummulites sp. Lamarck 1801
 Rotaliacea - Pellatispiridae
Miscellanea sp.