Also known as Manchar

Where: Sind, Pakistan (26.3° N, 67.8° E: paleocoordinates 22.1° N, 68.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Manchar Formation, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• believed to have come from the same c. 60 m stratigraphic interval at the base of the section yielding collections 1, 13, 2, 14, and 3 of Raza et al.

•"possibly 15 or 16 my old" (equivalent to Langhian)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; silty sandstone and brown, gray, red siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: 1914/1915 collection of B. B. Gupta described by Pilgrim (1917)

Primary reference: S. M. Raza, J. C. Barry, G. E. Meyer and L. Martin. 1984. Preliminary report on the geology and vertebrate fauna of the Miocene Manchar Formation, Sind, Pakistan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 4(4):584-599 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71439: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 25.04.2007

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