Also known as Manchar
Where: Sind, Pakistan (26.9° N, 67.3° E: paleocoordinates 23.8° N, 68.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Manchar Formation, Serravallian to Serravallian (13.8 - 7.2 Ma)
• age not discussed, but correlated stratigraphically with a level in the Bhagothoro section between faunas "younger than 9.5 my" and "more than 13 my" old (equivalent to Serravallian or Tortonian)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: new collection made in 1975 and/or 1976
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 71455: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 25.04.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Orycteropus sp. Geoffroy 1791 aardvark | |
Proboscidea indet. proboscidean | |
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros |