Dera Bugti Level 5: MN 3, Pakistan
collected 1995, 1996

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Gompotherium cooperi
Actinopteri - Siluriformes - Siluridae
Siluridae indet. Cuvier 1816
Reptilia
Crocodylus bugtiensis
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudinidae indet. Batsch 1788
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Choerolophodontidae
Choerolophodon cf. corrugatus
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Prodeinotherium pentapotamiae (Falconer and Lydekker 1876)
original and current combination Dinotherium pentapotamiae
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Aprotodon fatehjangense (Pilgrim 1912)
Mammalia - Anthracotheriidae
Parabrachyodus hyopotamoides
Sivameryx palaeindicum
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Prokanisamys cf. benjavuni (Mein and Ginsburg 1985)
original and current combination Kanisamys benjavuni
? Megacricetodon daamsi
Spanocricetodon khani
Spanocricetodon sp. Li 1977
see common names

Geography
Country:Pakistan State/province:Balochistan
Coordinates: 29.0° North, 69.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:23.6° North, 69.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:MN 3
Age range of interval:20.00000 - 16.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: from an interval 3 - 5 m thick within section B near Kumbi, far to the west of Dera Bugti city
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Lithology description: sandstone with sandy lenses
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:1995, 1996
Metadata
Also known as:Bugti Hills
Database number:77780
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-01-19 20:38:54 Last modified:2008-01-19 22:41:25
Access level:the public Released:2008-01-19 20:38:54
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
23349. J. -L. Welcomme, P. -O. Antoine, F. Duranthon, P. Mein, and L. Ginsburg. 1997. Nouvelles decouvertes de vertebres miocenes dans le synclina de Dera Bugti (Balouchistan, Pakistan). Comptes Rendus Academie de Science Paris. Sciences de la terr et des planetes 325:531-536 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

26268 J.-L. Welcomme and L. Ginsburg. 1997. Mise en évidence de l'Oligocène sur le territoire des Bugti (Balouchistan, Pakistan). Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science 325(12):999-1004 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]