Where: India (30.8° N, 76.8° E: paleocoordinates 29.6° N, 77.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, gray, sandy claystone
Primary reference: G.L. Badam. 1977. Fossil mammals of the Upper Siwalik and the problem of the boundary between the Neogene and the Quaternary system in India. Bulletin of the Commission for the Study of the Quaternary Period (47)37-44 [J. Hunter/D. Ehrenburg/J. Hunter]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 39210: authorized by John Hunter, entered by Dina Ehrenburg on 23.05.2004, edited by Hannah O'Regan
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Rhinoceros palaeindicus Falconer and Cautley 1847 one-horned rhinoceros
Rhinoceros sivalensis Falconer and Cautley 1847 one-horned rhinoceros
Chilotherium intermedium Heissig 1972 rhinoceros | |
Hipparion antelopinum hipparionine horse
Equus sivalensis Falconer and Cautley 1849 horse | |
Camelus sp. Linnaeus 1758 camel | |
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758 deer | |
Leptobos sp. Rutimeyer 1878 antelope
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 bison
Bubalus sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 water buffalo
Bos sp. Linnaeus 1758 ox
Hemibos sp. Falconer 1865 antelope
Proamphibos sp. Pilgrim 1939 antelope | |
Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828 mammoth | |
Reptilia | |
"Colossochelys atlas" = Megalochelys sivalensis
"Colossochelys atlas" = Megalochelys sivalensis Falconer and Cautley 1837 turtle | |
"Geoclemys sivalensis" = Geoclemys hamiltonii
"Geoclemys sivalensis" = Geoclemys hamiltonii Gray 1831 Spotted pond turtle | |
Gavialis browni Mook 1932 gharial | |
Crocodylus biporcatus crocodile
Crocodylus palaeindicus Falconer 1859 crocodile |