Where: Panjab, India (30.7° N, 76.8° E: paleocoordinates 29.6° N, 77.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Tatrot Formation (Siwalik Group), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• Early-Mid Pliocene. The Tatrot Formation underlies the Pinjor fomation, with the contact between them dated to 2.5Ma (Gauss/Matuyama boundary).
•"upper Siwaliks"
Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. Gaur and S. R. K. Chopra. 1984. Taphonomy, fauna, environment and ecology of Upper Sivaliks (Plio-Pleistocene) near Chandigarh, India. Nature 308:353-358 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 51104: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 27.05.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Crocodilidae indet." = Crocodylidae
"Crocodilidae indet." = Crocodylidae Cuvier 1807 crocodile | |
"Chelonidae indet." = Cheloniidae
"Chelonidae indet." = Cheloniidae Bonaparte 1832 sea turtle | |
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Siluridae indet. Cuvier 1816 catfish |