Bakhalag-Bughar (Paleocene of India)

Also known as near the villages Kog, Ghanagughat and Kalharan

Where: Himachal Pradesh, India (30.9° N, 77.1° E: paleocoordinates 3.2° S, 68.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kakara Formation, Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Gupta and K. Kumar. 2013. Ziphodont Crocodilian and other biotic remains from the Paleocene-basal Eocene Kakara Formation, NW Sub-Himalaya: palaeogeographic and palaeoecologic implications. Himalayan Geology 34(2):172-182 [M. Uhen/C. Violaris/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 190086: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Chrysanthi Violaris on 27.11.2017, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Rotaliina - Lepitorbitoididae
Reptilia
 Crocodylia -
Pristichampsinae indet. Kuhn 1968 crocodilian
teeth - WIMF/A 1614-1617