Barrackpore peat bed (Quaternary of India)

Where: India (22.8° N, 88.3° E: paleocoordinates 22.4° N, 88.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Quaternary (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• give a strat column of about 7 m of exposed sediment, but no name given to units

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; unlithified siliciclastic sediments and unlithified peat

• A freshwater deposit in a quiet environment, in an area that fluctuated between fresh and brackish water.
• A peat bed below alluvium and clay (peaty clay with wood fragments and log(s?) ). The peat layer is situated 6.7 m below the surface

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: P. K. Sen and M. Banerjee. 1983. On the occurrence of reptilian remains in the peat bed of Barrackpore, 24-Parganas, West Bengal. Journal of the Paleontological Society of India 29:47-51 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28180: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 27.01.2003

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Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Malvales - Sterculiaceae
Reptilia
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Chitra indica Gray 1831 softshell turtle
 Crocodylia - Gavialidae
Gavialis gangeticus Gmelin 1789 Gharial