Where: Tamil Nadu, India (11.2° N, 79.1° E: paleocoordinates 48.0° S, 43.1° E)

When: Acanthoceras rhotomagense ammonoid zone, Karai Formation (Uttatur Group), Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Uttatur Group, Karai Formation, 209 m level

•middle Cenomanian, Acanthoceras rhotomagense Zone

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Holotype, and only specimen so far known (OUM KY.2861; leg. A.S. Gale, 1999)

Primary reference: B. W. M. van Bakel, D. Guinot, P. Artal, R. H. B. Fraaije, and J. W. M. Jagt. 2012. A revision of the Palaeocorystoidea and the phylogeny of raninoidian crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Podotremata). Zootaxa 3215:1-216 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/J. Fearon]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 207139: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 30.12.2019, edited by J Fearon

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