MPM N-18: Late/Upper Miocene, Nepal
collected 1976

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825
Mammalia
Mammalia indet. (Linnaeus 1758)
small
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Brachypotherium perimense
Actinopteri
Teleostei indet. (Müller 1846)
see common names

Geography
Country:Nepal State/province:Dang Valley
Coordinates: 28.0° North, 82.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.6° North, 82.7° 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:11.60800 - 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: sandstone
Secondary lithology: claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Buff sandstones and claystones with interbedded purple marlstone
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:201850
Authorizer:E. Vlachos Enterer:E. Vlachos
Created:2019-06-03 08:02:20 Last modified:2019-06-03 08:02:20
Access level:the public Released:2019-06-03 08:02:20
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]