Gandhera Quarry (Eocene of Pakistan)

Where: Balochistan, Pakistan (30.4° N, 69.8° E: paleocoordinates 5.2° N, 63.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ghazij Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Late early Eocene (Ypresian); upper part of the upper Ghazij Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siltstone

• "siltstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: GSP-UM collection

Primary reference: G. F. Gunnell, P. D. Gingerich, M. Haq, J. I. Bloch, I. H. Khan and W. C. Clyde. 2008. New primates (Mammalia) from the early and middle Eocene of Pakistan and their paleobiogeographical implications. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 32(1):1-14 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87933: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 29.03.2009, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• remaining fauna not discussed
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Isectolophidae
Gandheralophus minor n. gen. n. sp.
Gandheralophus minor n. gen. n. sp. Missiaen and Gingerich 2012 odd-toed ungulate
GSP−UM 6770 - holotype
 Primates -
"Sulaimania arifi n. gen. n. sp." = Sulaimanius arifi
"Sulaimania arifi n. gen. n. sp." = Sulaimanius arifi Gunnell et al. 2008 primate
 Primates - Notharctidae
Panobius russelli n. sp. Gunnell et al. 2008 primate
 Primates - Omomyidae
Kohatius cf. coppensi, "Indusius kaliae n. gen. n. sp." = Indusomys kaliae
Kohatius cf. coppensi Russell and Gingerich 1980 tarsier
"Indusius kaliae n. gen. n. sp." = Indusomys kaliae Gunnell et al. 2008 tarsier