Rifle Range Locality (Eocene to of India)

Also known as Locality KK

Where: Himachal Pradesh, India (31.0° N, 77.0° E: paleocoordinates 6.6° N, 70.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Subathu Formation, Ypresian to Ypresian (56.0 - 41.3 Ma)

• Lower part of Zone III of Mathur (1978)

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•Palynological and palynofacies assemblage of the Subathu Formation suggest Ypresian–Lutetian age (Panwar et al. 2021) and also had a suggested depositional age range of depositional age range of ∼44–50 Ma based on U-Pb detrital zircon analysis (Colleps et al. 2020)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; fine-grained, medium, red conglomerate

• Overbank deposit
• 5 m thick fine to medium grained red overbank microconglomerate, characterized by millimetric sized quartz, calcite, and ferromagnesian clasts, embedded in a laterally varying matrix of sand, silt, and clay components

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: X. Panadés I Blas, R. S. Loyal, H. H. Schleich and E. Llinás Agrasar. 2004. Pristichampsine cranial remains from the basal redbed facies of the Subathu Formation (Himachal Pradesh, India) and some palaeobiographical remarks. PalArch 3(1):1-7 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144643: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 14.05.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Crocodylia -
Pristichampsinae indet.
Pristichampsinae indet. Kuhn 1968 crocodilian
VPL/L 800086 (left premaxilla accompanied by the anteriormost part of the left maxilla), VPL/L 10110 (teeth) and VPL/L 10120 (tooth)
 Testudines -
Testudines indet.
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
Abundant fragments of heavily mineralized turtle bones