Daud Khel Local Fauna: Middle Miocene - Tortonian, Pakistan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Crocodylus palaeindicus
Falconer and Walker 1859
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= Crocodylia indet.
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Chabrol et al. 2024 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Agamidae
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Agamidae indet.
Gray 1827
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionyx sp.
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809
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Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Soricidae indet.
Fischer 1814
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Mammalia
- Talpidae
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Talpidae indet.
(Fischer de Waldheim 1817)
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Munthe and West 1980 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Erinaceidae
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Erinaceidae indet.
Fischer von Waldheim 1817
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Amphechinus kreuzae n. sp.
Munthe and West 1980
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Munthe and West 1980 | |||||||||
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Galerix rutlandae n. sp.
Munthe and West 1980
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Munthe and West 1980 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Tragulidae
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Dorcatherium sp.
Kaup 1839
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Dorcatherium minus
Lydekker 1876
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Mammalia
- Giraffidae
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Giraffokeryx sp.
Pilgrim 1910
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Giraffokeryx punjabiensis
Pilgrima 1910
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Miotragocerus sp.
Stromer 1928
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Gazella sp.
Blaineville 1816
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Mammalia
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Palaeochoerus sp.
Pomel 1847
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Listriodon sp.
von Meyer 1846
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Listriodon pentapotamiae
(Falconer 1870)
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Chilotherium sp.
Ringström 1924
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Gaindatherium browni
Colbert 1934
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Brachypotherium perimense
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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cf. Hipparion sp.
de Christol 1832
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Mammalia
- Creodonta
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Dissopsalis carnifex
Pilgrim 1910
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Muridae
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Muridae indet.
Illiger 1811
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Antemus cf. chinjiensis
Jacobs 1977
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Myocricetodon sp.
Lavocat 1952
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Copemys sp.
Wood 1936
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Kanisamys indicus
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Munthe 1980 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Eutamias urialis
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Munthe 1980 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Ctenodactylidae
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Sayimys sivalensis
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Munthe 1980 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Gliridae
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Myomimus sumbalenwalicus
Munthe 1980
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Gomphotheriidae indet.
Hay 1922
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Actinopteri
- Siluriformes
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Siluriformes indet.
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Geography
| Country: | Pakistan | State/province: | Minanwali |
| Coordinates: | 32.9° North, 71.7° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 29.0° North, 73.2° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| *Period: | Middle Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Miocene - Tortonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 15.98000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Siwalik | Formation: | Chinji | ||
| Local section: | Daud Khel | Local bed: | Unit 59 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Includes localities H-GSP 17, 18, 19
age given only as Miocene, but unambiguously Tortonian based on the faunal list (JA) This formation is about 11.2 to 14.2 Ma in age (Barry et al., 2002). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | red or brown silty,calcareous sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Bright red granular calclithite with silt to fine-grained sand matrix and granule clasts. | |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | many |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection |
| Collection size: | 1000 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:fossils found also include unidentified fish, amphibian and reptiles, and charophyte remains | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 13489 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Clyde, P. Mannion, L. van den Hoek Ostende | Enterer: | J. Finarelli, L. van den Hoek Ostende, W. Clyde, P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-04-03 08:25:29 | Last modified: | 2022-03-07 05:00:00 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-04-03 08:25:29 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 10569. | S. T. Hussain and R. M. West. 1979. Daud Khel local fauna: a preliminary report on a Neogene vertebrate assemblage from the Trans-Indus Siwaliks, Pakistan. Milwaukee Public Museum Contributions in Biology and Geology 16(1):1-17 [W. Clyde/W. Clyde/W. Clyde] |
Secondary references:
| 88301 | N. Chabrol, A. M. Jukar, R. Patnaik and P. D. Mannion. 2024. Osteology of Crocodylus palaeindicus from the late Miocene–Pleistocene of South Asia and the phylogenetic relationships of crocodyloids. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 22(1):2313133 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
| 6104 | 5% 29420 | J. Munthe. 1980. Rodents of the Miocene Daud Khel local fauna, Minanwali District, Pakistan; Part 1: Sciuridae, Gliridae, Ctenodactylidae, and Rhizomyidae. Contributions in Biology and Geology: Milwaukee Public Museum 34:36 [W. Clyde/J. Finarelli/J. Alroy] |
| 25430 | J. Munthe and R. M. West. 1980. Insectivora of the Miocene Daud Khel Local Fauna, Mianwali District, Pakistan. Contributions in Biology and Geology: Milwaukee Public Museum 38:1-17 [L. van den Hoek Ostende/L. van den Hoek Ostende] |