Also known as Bugti Hills; DB2 level

Where: Balochistan, Pakistan (29.0° N, 69.2° E: paleocoordinates 20.8° N, 68.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bugti Member (Chitarwata Formation), Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• from the "second ferruginous crust" in the member, called "DB2" in this area and "DB J1" to the south; "late Oligocene"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; lithified, ferruginous claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: material is in the collection of the Institut des Sciences d l'Evolution, Université de Montpellier II

Primary reference: G. Métais, P.-O. Antoine, S. R. H. Baqri, M. Benammi, J.-Y. Crochet, D. Franceschi, L. Marivaux and J.-L. Welcomme. 2006. New remains of the enigmatic cetartiodactyl Bugtitherium grandincisivum Pilgrim, 1908, from the upper Oligocene of the Bugti Hills (Balochistan, Pakistan). Naturwissenschaften 93(7):348-355 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78423: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 06.02.2008, edited by Mark Uhen

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