Also known as DKL

Where: Himachal Pradesh, India (20.5° N, 73.2° E: paleocoordinates 3.5° N, 65.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Subanthu Formation, Middle Eocene (48.6 - 37.2 Ma)

• top of the unit is not exposed at this locality, a nearby locality has the youngest green facies bed 15 to 20m below the top of the unit

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; green shale

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: mechanical, sieve,

• matrix disaggregated by boiling in a heavily diluted dtergent, and screen washed, some retrieved by chipping and chiseling in the field

Primary reference: K. Kumar and R. S. Loyal. 1987. Eocene ichthyofauna from the Subathu Formation, Northwestern Himalaya, India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 32:60-84 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31026: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 07.04.2003

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