Article: Ostracoda from the middle Eocene of Assam
Publication: Palaeontology
Volume:
28
Part:
2
Publication Date:
May
1985
Page(s):
355
–
385
Author(s):
John W. Neale and Pratap Singh
Abstract
A traverse across the middle Eocene part of the Sylhet Formation in the Deopani Region of Assam has yielded a well-preserved Tertiary ostracod fauna. Of the twenty-nine species, twenty-two are new, one has previously been recorded elsewhere and six are left under open nomenclature. A further specimen is left under open nomenclature as a probable new subspecies of one of the new species described here. Examination of their distribution enables three successive faunas to be recognized above a lower group of beds which has not yet yielded ostracods.