Chirakhan, Sitapuri (Cretaceous of India)

Where: Madhya Pradesh, India (22.4° N, 75.1° E: paleocoordinates 23.5° S, 58.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Coralline Limestone Formation), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. N. Lakhanpal, H. K. Maheshwari, and N. Awasthi. 1976. A Catalogue of Indian Fossil Plants. 1-318 [B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 224748: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 04.04.2022

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Taxonomic list

Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Peyssonnelia antiqua Johnson 1964
Cyanophyceae
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Cayeuxia chirakhanensis n. sp. Pal 1968
Cayeuxia minuta Pal 1968