Waior village, lower part - Maniyara Fort Formation (Oligocene of India)

Where: Gujarat, India (23.1° N, 68.7° E: paleocoordinates 13.5° N, 65.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Maniyara Fort Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• early Oligocene. Ramanian Stage of the Bermoti Series (Oligocene) of

•Kachchh (Biswas, 1972).

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: P. C. Misra, A. K. Jauhri, S. K. Singh, S. Kishore, and A. Chowdhury. 2001. Coralline algae from the Oligocene of Kachchh, Gujarat, India. Journal of The Palaeontological Society of lndia 46:59-76 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 156231: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 14.05.2014

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
 Orbitoidacea - Lepidocyclinidae
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Arthrocardia sp. Decaisne 1842
Corallina "sp. 2" Linnaeus 1758
Lithoporella sp. Foslie 1909
 Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
"Lithothamnion "sp. 1"" = Lithothamnion, "Lithothamnion "sp. 2"" = Lithothamnion, Lithothamnion manni, "Lithothamnium ? iorii" = Lithothamnion, Mesophyllum "sp. 1", Mesophyllum "sp. 2"
"Lithothamnion "sp. 1"" = Lithothamnion Heydrich 1897
"Lithothamnion "sp. 2"" = Lithothamnion Heydrich 1897
Lithothamnion manni Johnson and Stewart 1953
"Lithothamnium ? iorii" = Lithothamnion
Mesophyllum "sp. 1" Lemoine 1930
Mesophyllum "sp. 2" Lemoine 1930