Gaj River (Yale-GSP Locality 11) (Miocene to of Pakistan)

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

• shown as being in a conglomerate in a section figure

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
 Tubulidentata - Orycteropodidae
Orycteropus sp. Geoffroy 1791 aardvark
 Proboscidea - Proboscidea
Proboscidea indet. proboscidean
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros