Labpur (Miocene of India)

Where: West Bengal, India (23.8° N, 87.8° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 18.8° N, 87.8° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Srivastava. 1991. A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 4: Cenozoic (Tertiary) Megafossils. 1-45 [B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 227813: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 02.11.2022

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Sapindales - Meliaceae
Chisochetonoxylon bengalensis n. gen. n. sp. Ghosh and Roy 1979 mahogany
 Sapindales - Anacardiaceae
Lanneoxylon grandiosum Prakash and Tripathi 1967 cashew
Dracontomelumoxylon mangiferumoides n. gen. n. sp. Ghosh and Roy 1979 cashew
Buchananioxylon indicum n. gen. n. sp. Ghosh and Roy 1980 cashew
Mangiferoxylon assamicum Prakash and Tripathi 1970 cashew
 Fabales - Fabaceae
Albizinium eolebbekianum Prakash 1975 legume
Millettioxylon pongamiensis Prakash 1975 legume
 Mesangiosperms - Arecaceae
Palmoxylon coronatum Sahni 1980 palm