Ayyanidipu: Pleistocene, India
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Hypselephas hysudricus
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synonym of Elephas | |||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | India | State/province: | Madras |
Coordinates: | 8.8° North, 78.1° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 8.4° North, 78.0° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
*Period: | Early/Lower Quaternary | ||
Key time interval: | Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 2.58800 - 0.01170 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Cholan |
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
Collection size: | 1 specimens |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 13487 | ||
Authorizer: | W. Clyde | Enterer: | J. Finarelli |
Modifier: | J. Finarelli | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2002-04-03 07:40:37 | Last modified: | 2002-04-11 12:33:12 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-04-03 07:40:37 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
6122. | 5% 40680 | K.N. Prasad and J. A. Daniel. 1968. On the occurence of Hypselephas hysudricus in the Pleistocene deposits of Tirunelveli. Current Science 37(18):516-517 [W. Clyde/J. Finarelli/J. Alroy] |