MPM N-5: Late/Upper Miocene, Nepal
collected 1976

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Deinotherium pentapotomiae
corrected as Dinotherium
see common names

Geography
Country:Nepal State/province:Dang Valley
Coordinates: 28.0° North, 82.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.5° North, 82.9° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Miocene
Age range of interval:11.63000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Siwalik Formation:Dang Valley
Stratigraphy comments: Our correlation of the Dang Valley assemblage with the fauna of the Chinji Formation of Pakistan, therefore, suggests a basic biological similarity but does not necessarily imply temporal or stratigraphic equivalence.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:yellow claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: yellow claystone
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some microfossils
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:1976
Collection method comments: MPM= Milwaukee Public Museum
Metadata
Database number:201836
Authorizer:E. Vlachos Enterer:E. Vlachos
Modifier:E. Vlachos
Created:2019-06-03 07:50:32 Last modified:2019-06-03 07:54:48
Access level:the public Released:2019-06-03 07:50:32
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
69080. R. M. West, J. R. Lukacs, J. Munthe, Jr. and S. T. Hussain. 1978. Vertebrate fauna from Neogene Siwalik Group, Dang Valley, Western Nepal. Journal of Paleontology 52(5):1015-1022 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]