Dang Valley N8: Middle Miocene, Nepal

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Claridae indet.
Protragoceras gluten
1 specimen
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Brachypotherium perimense
12 specimens
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Deinotherium pentapotamiae (Falconer and Lydekker 1876)
1 specimen
original and current combination Dinotherium pentapotamiae
Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae
Batagurinae informal form A
3 specimens
Batagurinae informal form B
1 specimen
? Kachuga indet. Gray 1869
1 specimen
Reptilia - Testudines - Geoemydidae
cf. Batagur sp. Gray 1855
12 specimens
originally entered as "cf. Batagur indet."
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Lissemys punctata Bonnaterre 1789
3 specimens
Trionychinae indet. Gray 1825
6 specimens
Chitra cf. indica Gray 1831
1 specimen
Reptilia - Acrochordidae
Acrochordus dehmi Hoffstetter 1964
37 specimens
sample is greater than 37 specimens
Reptilia
cf. Tomistoma indet. Müller 1846
1 specimen
Gavialis sp. Oppel 1811
10 specimens
sample is greater than 10 specimens
Actinopteri - Anabantiformes - Channidae
Channa informal n. sp.
unnamed new species
see common names

Geography
Country:Nepal
Coordinates: 28.2° North, 82.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.4° North, 82.2° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Middle Miocene
Age range of interval:15.97000 - 11.60800 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Siwalik
Stratigraphy comments: Considered within the "Hipparion s. l." interval zone of Barry et al. (1982)
Lithology and environment
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Disassociated major elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),mechanical,field collection
Collection size:88 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Collection is larger than 88 specimens
Metadata
Database number:48681
Authorizer:J. Head Enterer:J. Head
Modifier:J. Head Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-03-27 20:48:34 Last modified:2005-03-27 23:48:35
Access level:the public Released:2005-03-27 20:48:33
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

12990. R. M. West, J. H. Hutchison, and J. Munthe. 1991. Miocene vertebrates from the Siwalik Group, Western Nepal. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 11(1):108-129 [J. Head/J. Head/J. Alroy]