Ayyanidipu: Pleistocene, India

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Hypselephas hysudricus
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% 40680K.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]