Chinji Stratotype Fauna: Middle Miocene, Pakistan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Trilophodontidae spp.
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Eurhinoceros sp.
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| Incertae sedis | ||||||||||
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Conophyus sindiense
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Dicoryphochorus heydeni
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Deinotheriidae
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Deinotheriidae spp.
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Amphicyonidae
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Amphicyon palaeindicus
Falconer and Lydekker 1876
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Hyaenidae
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Crocuta carnifex
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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? Hipparion sp.
de Christol 1832
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Chalicotheriidae
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Macrotherium salinum
Forster Cooper 1922
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Didermocerus cf. abeli
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| synonym of Dicerorhinus | ||||||||||
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Didermocerus cf. sumatrensis
(Fischer 1814)
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| recombined as Dicerorhinus sumatrensis | ||||||||||
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Aprotodon fatehjangense
(Pilgrim 1912)
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Brachypotherium perimense
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Rhinoceros browni
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Caementodon oettingenae
Heissig 1972
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| recombined as Caementodon (Caementodon) oettingenae | ||||||||||
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Chilotherium intermedium
Heissig 1972
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| Chilotherium intermedium intermedium | ||||||||||
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Aceratherium sp.
Kaup 1834
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Mammalia
- Anthracotheriidae
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Hemimeryx pusillus
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Propotamochoerus salinus
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Listriodon pentapotamiae
(Falconer 1870)
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Mammalia
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Palaeochoerus perimensis
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| Spelled Paleochoerus in original | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Tragulidae
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Dorcatherium sp.
Kaup 1839
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Dorcatherium minus
Lydekker 1876
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Dorcatherium majus
Lydekker 1876
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Dorcabune anthracotherioides
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Dorcabune nagrii
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Mammalia
- Giraffidae
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Giraffokeryx punjabensis
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Gazella lydekkeri
Pilgrim 1937
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Strepsiportax sp.
Pilgrim 1937
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| Spelled Strepsipotax in original | ||||||||||
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Helicoportax praecox
Pilgrim 1937
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| synonym of Strepsiportax gluten | ||||||||||
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Sivaceros cf. gradiens
Pilgrim 1939
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Helicoportax tragelaphoides
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Geography
| Country: | Pakistan | State/province: | Punjab |
| Coordinates: | 32.7° North, 72.4° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 28.0° North, 73.7° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| *Period: | Middle - Late/Upper Tertiary - Middle - Late/Upper Tertiary | *Epoch: | Middle Miocene - Middle Miocene |
| Key time interval: | Middle Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 15.98000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:Review of collections made from type locality of the Chinji Formation | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 13472 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Clyde | Enterer: | J. Finarelli |
| Modifier: | J. Finarelli | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-03-28 10:17:59 | Last modified: | 2002-03-28 12:38:56 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-03-28 10:17:59 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 6080. | 5% 34280 | J. J. M. Moonen, P. Y. Sondaar, and S. T. Hussain. 1978. A comparison of larger fossil mammals in the stratotypes of the Chinji, Nagri and Dhok Pathan Formations (Punjab, Pakistan). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Series B: Palaeontology, Geology, Physics and Chemistry 81(4):425-436 [W. Clyde/J. Finarelli/M. Uhen] |