Z149: Late/Upper Oligocene - Early/Lower Miocene, Pakistan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821
Brachypotherium gajense
Pleuroceros blanfordi (Lydekker 1884)
see common names

Geography
Country:Pakistan State/province:Baluchistan
Coordinates: 30.1° North, 70.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:23.1° North, 70.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Key time interval:Late/Upper Oligocene - Early/Lower Miocene
Age range of interval:27.82000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Chitarwata
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Upper part of the Chitarwata Formation.

Upper part of Chitarwata is earliest Miocene, and list of taxa suggests earliest Miocene age, but stratigraphic position of Z149 suggests Late Oligocene age (e.g. Antoine et al. 2013)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Z 149; Zinda Pir Dome
Database number:180585
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-07-22 06:30:56 Last modified:2022-03-07 07:48:31
Access level:the public Released:2016-07-22 06:30:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
59924. E. H. Lindsay, L. J. Flynn, I. U. Cheema, J. C. Barry, K. Downing, A. R. Rajpar, and S. M. Raza. 2005. Will Downs and the Zinda Pir Dome. Palaeontologia Electronica 8(1):19A:1-18 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]