Vastan Lignite Mine, Indien


Fundort: Vastan Lignite Mine, Indien, Gujarat, Indien
Taxon: Vastanomys major aus der Familie Omomyidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils,mesofossils, Age based on Nummulites burdigalensis, which implies Shallow Benthic Zone 10 according to Bajpai et al, and SBZ 10-11 according to Rose et al. most small and large mammals are from two different, immediately superposed beds above Lignite 2 and at the base of the estuarine cycle 1, low in the section, but additional mammals are from supratidal deposits well above the highest lignite at the top of cycle 6 (Rose et al. 2009), Alternate dark grey carb. shale & greenish black shale/marl or (according to Rose et al. 2006) "dark, organic-rich, clayey silt at the contact between a marine shelly layer, containing shark and fish remains, and a continental clay layer" or (according to Rose et al. 2009) "smaller terrestrial vertebrates... come from a thin lens (<0.5 m thick) of dark, clayey silt and shale with abundant plant matter... Approximately 1-2 m higher is a dark clay zone that has produced larger mammals"
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 47,8 und 56, Millionen Jahre aus der Cambay Shale Formation in Indien
Geologie, Sratigraphie Ypresian / Ypresian / Cambay Shale
Koordinaten: 21° 23 ' 50 '' N, 73° 4 ' 46 '' O

Literatur

K. D. Rose, R. S. Rana, A. Sahni, K. Kumar, P. Missiaen, L. Singh, T. Smith 2009, Early Eocene primates from Gujarat, India. Journal of Human Evolution. 56:4, p. 366 - 404, DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.01.008

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