6 km east of Palasava: Langhian - Serravallian, India
collected 2007, 2015
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Schizodelphis sp.
Gervais 1861
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BSIP41789, BSIP41790 | ||||||||||
= Odontoceti indet.
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Uhen 2500 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Aves indet.
(Linnaeus 1758)
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BSIP41787 and BSIP41788; possibly represent the family Phoenicopteridae or Ciconiidae | ||||||||||
Crocodylia indet.
(Owen 1842)
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BSIP41779-41785; Crocodylus sp. and/or Tomistoma sp. | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionychidae indet.
(Gray 1825)
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Cyclanorbinae indet.
Hummel 1929
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Pelomedusidae
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Pelomedusidae indet.
Cope 1868
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Reptilia
- Varanidae
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Varanus sp.
Merrem 1820
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Čerňanský et al. 2022 | |||||||||
One dorsal vertebra BIOPS/CUP/KP-240 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Acrochordidae
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Acrochordus sp.
Hornstedt 1787
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BSIP41786 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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cf. Uromastyx sp.
Merrem 1820
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Čerňanský et al. 2022 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Deinotheriidae
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Deinotherium sindiense
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original and current combination Dinotherium | ||||||||||
BSIP41804 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Zygolophodon sp.
(Vacek 1877)
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BSIP41799 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Gomphotherium sp.
Burmeister 1837
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BSIP41800 and BSIP41801 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Rhinocerotidae indet.
Gray 1821
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BSIP41798 | ||||||||||
Brachypotherium perimense
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BSIP41797 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Anthracotheriidae
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Sivameryx palaeindicus
Lydekker 1883
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BSIP41794 and BSIP41795 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Suidae
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Suidae indet.
Gray 1821
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BSIP41791 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Tragulidae
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Tragulidae indet.
Milnes-Edwards 1864
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BSIP41796 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
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Sanitherium schlagintweiti
von Meyer 1866
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BSIP41792 and BSIP41793 | ||||||||||
Giraffoidea indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Actinopteri
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Teleostei indet.
(Müller 1846)
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Actinopteri
- Cypriniformes
- Cyprinidae
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Cyprinidae indet.
Rafinesque 1815
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Chondrichthyes
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Selachimorpha indet.
Nelson 1984
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Carcharhinidae
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Carcharhinus sp.
de Blainville 1816
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Chondrichthyes
- Rhinopristiformes
- Pristidae
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Pristis sp.
Linck 1790
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Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Myliobatidae
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Myliobatis sp.
Cuvier 1816
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | India | State/province: | Gujarat |
Coordinates: | 23.4° North, 71.0° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 19.1° North, 70.9° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
Key time interval: | Langhian - Serravallian | ||
Age range of interval: | 15.97000 - 11.62000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Chhasra | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Based on the mammalian assemblage, Kapur et al. (2019) estimated a Middle Miocene (Langhian-Serravallian; ~14 ± 2 Ma) age
five ossiferous levels/horizons |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | gray sandy siltstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: grey silts/clays with sand lenses consists predominantly of clay, silt, and sand- stone and conglomerate alternating with successive deposits of coarse-grained sandstone and gravelly lag deposits at the top | |
Environment: | fluvial-deltaic indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | 2007, 2015 |
Collection method comments: housed in the Department of Geology, Panjab University, Chandigarh and Department of Geology, Cen- tral University of Punjab under the collection codes: VPL/PU/KT, VPL/PU/KPS, BIOPS/CUP/KT, and BIOPS/CUP/KP |
Metadata
Database number: | 203629 | ||
Authorizer: | P. Mannion, M. Uhen | Enterer: | P. Mannion, G. Varnham, M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2019-08-21 10:24:16 | Last modified: | 2024-01-26 13:37:16 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-08-21 10:24:16 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
69790. | V. V. Kapur, M. Pickford, G. Chauhan and M. G. Thakkar. 2021. A Middle Miocene (~14 Ma) vertebrate assemblage from Palasava, Rapar Taluka, Kutch (Kachchh) District, Gujarat State, western India. Historical Biology 33(5):595-615 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
81651 | A. Čerňanský, N. P. Singh, R. Patnaik, K. M. Sharma, R. P. Tiwari, R. K. Sehgal, N. A. Singh and D. Choudhary. 2022. The Miocene fossil lizards from Kutch (Gujarat), India: a rare window to the past diversity of this subcontinent. Journal of Paleontology 96(1):213-223 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham] |