6 km east of Palasava: Langhian - Serravallian, India
collected 2007, 2015

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Schizodelphis sp. Gervais 1861
BSIP41789, BSIP41790
    = Odontoceti indet.
Uhen 2500
Reptilia
Aves indet. (Linnaeus 1758)
BSIP41787 and BSIP41788; possibly represent the family Phoenicopteridae or Ciconiidae
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
BSIP41779-41785; Crocodylus sp. and/or Tomistoma sp.
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. (Gray 1825)
Cyclanorbinae indet. Hummel 1929
Reptilia - Testudines - Pelomedusidae
Pelomedusidae indet. Cope 1868
Reptilia - Varanidae
Varanus sp. Merrem 1820
Čerňanský et al. 2022
One dorsal vertebra BIOPS/CUP/KP-240
Reptilia - Acrochordidae
Acrochordus sp. Hornstedt 1787
BSIP41786
Reptilia
cf. Uromastyx sp. Merrem 1820
Čerňanský et al. 2022
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Deinotherium sindiense
original and current combination Dinotherium
BSIP41804
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Zygolophodon sp. (Vacek 1877)
BSIP41799
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotherium sp. Burmeister 1837
BSIP41800 and BSIP41801
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821
BSIP41798
Brachypotherium perimense
BSIP41797
Mammalia - Anthracotheriidae
Sivameryx palaeindicus Lydekker 1883
BSIP41794 and BSIP41795
Mammalia - Suidae
Suidae indet. Gray 1821
BSIP41791
Mammalia - Tragulidae
Tragulidae indet. Milnes-Edwards 1864
BSIP41796
Mammalia
Sanitherium schlagintweiti von Meyer 1866
BSIP41792 and BSIP41793
Giraffoidea indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821
Actinopteri
Teleostei indet. (Müller 1846)
Actinopteri - Cypriniformes - Cyprinidae
Cyprinidae indet. Rafinesque 1815
Chondrichthyes
Selachimorpha indet. Nelson 1984
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816
Chondrichthyes - Rhinopristiformes - Pristidae
Pristis sp. Linck 1790
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Myliobatis sp. Cuvier 1816
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]