Where: Uttar Pradesh, India (30.9° N, 76.7° E: paleocoordinates 29.8° N, 77.1° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Pliocene to Pliocene (5.3 - 0.0 Ma)
• "referable to the Pinjaur stage" - Upper Shivaliks
•said to be Miocene, but if the faunal list is accurate at all, it must be Pliocene or Pleistocene (JA)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, red sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1959
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
Primary reference: M. R. Sahni and E. Khan. 1961. Recent finds of Shivalik vertebrates. 3. On a complete dentition of a young Stegodon insignis Falc. and Caut. Research Bulletin of the Panjab University, New Series 12(3-4):259-261 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 37751: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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