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Island of Bombay: Eocene, India
collected by Dr. Leith, G. T. Clark 1846

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Stegocephali - Temnospondyli - Bufonidae
Rana pusilla n. sp. Owen 1847
recombined as Indobatrachus pusillus
see common names

Geography
Country:India State/province:Maharashtra
Coordinates: 19.0° North, 72.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.3° North, 63.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Key time interval:Eocene
Age range of interval:55.8 - 33.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: from the "highest and most western" of "five or six bands of trap rock" making up the island (Clark 1847)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Lithology description: "a mass of blue rock, weathering into a shale not unlike ordinary coal shale, and containing what I have no doubt will turn out to be vegetable impressions" (Clark 1847)
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,adpression,soft parts
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Taphonomy comments: "the osseous substance is black, as if charred"
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Collectors:Dr. Leith, G. T. Clark Collection dates:1846
Taxonomic list comments: apparently includes material from several parts of the island
Metadata
Database number:92026
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-10-27 13:58:01 Last modified:2009-10-27 16:02:27
Access level:the public Released:2009-10-27 13:58:01
Reference information
Primary reference:
30965 R. Owen. 1847. On the Batracholites, indicative of a small species of frog (Rana pusilla, Ow). Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 3(1):224-225 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

30964 G. T. Clark. 1847. On the neighborhood of Bombay, and certain beds containing fossil frogs. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 3(1):221-224 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]