Hathnora: Middle Pleistocene, India
collected by A. Sonakia 1982
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Stegodon ganesa
(Falconer and Cautley 1875)
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Stegodon insignis
Falconer 1857
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Hominidae
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Homo sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Hippopotamidae
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Hippopotamus namadicus
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bos namadicus
Falconer and Cautley 1847
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Cervus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus namadicus
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | India | State/province: | Madhya Pradesh |
Coordinates: | 22.7° North, 81.7° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 22.7° North, 81.7° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
Stage: | Chibanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Middle Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.77400 - 0.12900 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "The Narmada alluvium is nearly 18 m thick at the locality" and the fossils are "from its basal gravel-conglomerate bed... This is nearly 3 m thick" and "Middle Pleistocene" |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | conglomerate |
Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Geology comments: "alluvium" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | archaeological analysis | ||
Collectors: | A. Sonakia | Collection dates: | 1982 |
Metadata
Also known as: | Narmada River | ||
Database number: | 92786 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2009-11-29 12:06:04 | Last modified: | 2009-11-29 14:06:04 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-11-29 12:06:04 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
31306. | A. Sonakia. 1985. Skull cap of an early man from the Narmada Valley alluvium (Pleistocene) of central India. American Anthropologist 87(3):612-616 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |