Bankura: Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene, India
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Sus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Gazella sp.
Blaineville 1816
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Antilope cf. cevicapra
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Boselaphus sp.
de Blainville 1816
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| Spelled as Boselephas in the original paper | ||||||||||
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Bubalus palaeindicus
Falconer 1868
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Bos sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Cervus duvauceli
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Panthera cf. leo
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Hyaenidae
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Crocuta sp.
Erxleben 1777
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= Crocuta cf. sivalensis
Falconer and Cautley 1867
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Dutta 1976 | |||||||||
| 1 left mandible, incisors missing, Ci broken, P2-M1 present. heavily worn. | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Hystricidae
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Hystrix sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Palaeoloxodon namadicus
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| synonym of Elephas | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Gavialis sp.
Oppel 1811
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionyx sp.
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809
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Geography
| Country: | India | State/province: | West Bengal | County: | Bankura District |
| Coordinates: | 23.5° North, 87.0° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 23.5° North, 87.0° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | basin |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | ||
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Late/Upper Quaternary | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.00000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Babladanga | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Babladanga Formation proper is comprised of conglomerate and silty sandstone members, overlain by a claiche paleosol that cannibalizes the upper portion of the sandstone member. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | poorly lithified silty,calcareous sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified conglomerate |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection |
Metadata
| Database number: | 13456 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Clyde, A. Turner | Enterer: | J. Finarelli, H. O'Regan |
| Modifier: | J. Finarelli | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-03-27 12:14:27 | Last modified: | 2002-03-27 14:14:27 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-03-27 12:14:27 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 6077. | M.V.A. Sastry, D.C. Dassarma, and S. Biswas. 1976. Quaternary geology of Bankura District, West Bengal, India. Records of the Geological Survey of India 107:176-185 [W. Clyde/J. Finarelli/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 11349 | PACED | A. K. Dutta. 1976. Occurrence of fossil lion and spotted hyena from Pleistocene deposits of Susunia, Bankura District, West Bengal. Journal of the Geological Society of India 17(3):386-391 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan] |