Also known as Phizdura, PIS 1, PIS 2

Where: Maharashtra, India (20.4° N, 79.1° E: paleocoordinates 25.7° S, 61.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lameta Formation, Maastrichtian (70.6 - 65.5 Ma)

• infratrappean

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; green, red claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace, replaced with phosphate, coprolite

Collected by Hislop, Blanford, Hughes, Matley, Ghosh in 1850-1932; reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: surface (float),

• firt collections by Hislop, 1850-1860 and Blanford, 1859; subsequent collections all from same area: T. W. H. Hughes (1877); C. A. Matley (1920), Matley's Percy Sladen Trust Expedition (1932)

Primary reference: S. Hislop. 1859. On the Tertiary deposits, associated with trap-rock, in the East Indes. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 16:154-182 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26370: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 14.10.2002

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