Gogha, Kathiawar (Miocene of India)

Where: India (21.7° N, 72.3° E: paleocoordinates 15.2° N, 70.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• Gaj age

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Primary reference: A. Sahni. 1979. Miocene vertebrates from the coastal Tertiary rocks of peninsular india and Sri Lanka. Geological Survey of India Miscellaneous Publications 45:197-205 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 87485: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.03.2009, edited by John Alroy

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Hypoprion mectoti requiem shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
Hemipristis serra Agassiz 1835 ground shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Sphyrnidae
Sphyrna diplana hammerhead shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
"Galeocerdo cuvieri" = Galeocerdo cuvier
"Galeocerdo cuvieri" = Galeocerdo cuvier Peron and LeSueur 1822 tiger shark
 Lamniformes - Carchariidae
 Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus spaltanzeni mackerel shark
Isurus pagoda mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Alopiidae
Alopias valpes thresher shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon Agassiz 1835 megalodon
In a later publication, Sahni and D. K. Mehrotra. 1980, C. megalodon is not reported from Gogha
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla -
? Palaeochoerus sp. Pomel 1847 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Anthracotheriidae
? Hemimeryx sp. Lydekker 1883 anthracothere
Brachyodus manchharensis Prasad 1964 anthracothere
Reptilia
 Testudines - Emydidae
Emydidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 turtle
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle
 Loricata -
Eusuchia indet. crocodilian
crocodiles
Pisces
  -
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes Huxley 1880 bony fish
fishes