Dera Bugti Level 5 (Miocene of Pakistan)

Also known as Bugti Hills

Where: Balochistan, Pakistan (29.0° N, 69.1° E: paleocoordinates 23.6° N, 69.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: MN 3 (20.0 - 16.9 Ma)

• from an interval 3 - 5 m thick within section B near Kumbi, far to the west of Dera Bugti city

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

• sandstone with sandy lenses

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1995, 1996

Primary reference: J. -L. Welcomme, P. -O. Antoine, F. Duranthon, P. Mein, and L. Ginsburg. 1997. Nouvelles decouvertes de vertebres miocenes dans le synclina de Dera Bugti (Balouchistan, Pakistan). Comptes Rendus Academie de Science Paris. Sciences de la terr et des planetes 325:531-536 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 77780: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.01.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudinidae indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Prodeinotherium pentapotamiae Falconer and Lydekker 1876 deinothere
 Proboscidea - Choerolophodontidae
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Aprotodon fatehjangense Pilgrim 1912 rhinoceros
 Artiodactyla - Anthracotheriidae
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Spanocricetodon sp. Li 1977 mouse
"Prokanisamys cf. benjavuni" = Kanisamys benjavuni Mein and Ginsburg 1985 mouse
Actinopteri
 Siluriformes - Siluridae
Siluridae indet. Cuvier 1816 catfish