Where: Dang Valley, Nepal (28.0° N, 82.2° E: paleocoordinates 24.6° N, 82.7° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Dang Valley Formation (Siwalik Group), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• Our correlation of the Dang Valley assemblage with the fauna of the Chinji Formation of Pakistan, therefore, suggests a basic biological similarity but does not necessarily imply temporal or stratigraphic equivalence.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone and claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1976
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• MPM= Milwaukee Public Museum
Primary reference: R. M. West, J. R. Lukacs, J. Munthe, Jr. and S. T. Hussain. 1978. Vertebrate fauna from Neogene Siwalik Group, Dang Valley, Western Nepal. Journal of Paleontology 52(5):1015-1022 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 201850: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 03.06.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Reptilia | |
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle | |
Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian | |
Mammalia | |
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Brachypotherium perimense rhinoceros | |
Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922 gomphothere |