Alam Kali Kakor, DL-19 (central) (Cretaceous of Pakistan)

Also known as PDL-19, PDL-19c, Vitakri

Where: Balochistan, Pakistan (29.7° N, 69.4° E: paleocoordinates 13.4° S, 57.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Vitakri Formation (Fort Munro Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• "... found from the red, maroon and greenish grey mud/clays/paleosol zone of upper of Pab Formation, just below or on the (K-T) boundary of Mesozoic (Cretaceous) and Cenozoic (Tertiary/Paleocene)... [found] in the Central periphery of Sulaiman range..."

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; gray, green, red claystone

• "The upper part of Pab Formation seems to be a continental fluviatile fresh water deposition in the Central periphery of Sulaiman range..."
• "... found from the red, maroon and greenish grey mud/clays/paleosol zone of upper of Pab Formation, just below or on the (K-T) boundary of Mesozoic (Cretaceous) and Cenozoic (Tertiary/Paleocene)."

Size class: macrofossils

• Describes new rostrum "preserving the articulated premaxilla along with narial, dorsolateral and lateral processes; external naris; partial nasal, palate and maxilla" (MSM-155-19). Also listed are proximal left (MSM-59-19) and right (MSM-60-19) femurs, Basioccipital condyle along with partial braincase (MSM-61-19), and a tooth (MSM-62-19) presumed to belong to the same individual.

Collected by M. S. Malkani in 2000-2001

• Museum of the Geological Survey of Pakistan, Quetta, collection

Primary reference: M. S. Malkani. 2003. Discovery of partial skull and dentary of Titanosauria (sauropod dinosaur) from the Late Cretaceous Pab Formation of Vitakri area, Barkhan District, Balochistan, Pakistan. Geological Bulletin, University of Peshawar 36:65-71 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79666: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.03.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Specimens from V. sulaimani found in association with "the partial skull of adult/subadult titanosaurs"
Reptilia
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Titanosauridae indet.2 Lydekker 1885 titanosaurid
 Saurischia - Gspsauridae
"Gspsaurus pakistani n. gen. n. sp." = Gspsaurus pakistani5, "Maojandino alami n. gen. n. sp." = Gspsaurus pakistani4
"Gspsaurus pakistani n. gen. n. sp." = Gspsaurus pakistani5 Malkani 2014 sauropod
MSM-79-19, 80-19, 216-19, 213-19
"Maojandino alami n. gen. n. sp." = Gspsaurus pakistani4 Malkani 2014 sauropod
MSM-107-19 to MSM-117-19
 Saurischia - Balochisauridae
Marisaurus jeffi1 Malkani 2004 sauropod
MSM 107-19 to 119-19, 213-19, 216-19, 217-19 to 221-19, 437-19, 502-19, 569-19, 617-19, 638-19, 696-19, 710-19, 777-19, 1100-19
 Theropoda - Vitakrisauridae
Vitakridrinda sulaimani n. gen. n. sp.1
Vitakridrinda sulaimani n. gen. n. sp.1 Malkani 2004 ceratosaur
MSM 59-19 to 62-19, 706-19, 765-19, 1039-19
 Loricata -
Pabwehshi pakistanensis3 Wilson et al. 2001 Pab beast
MSM-65-19, 66-19
 Loricata - Induszalimidae
Induszalim bala n. gen. n. sp.4
Induszalim bala n. gen. n. sp.4 Malkani 2014 crocodilian
MSM-155-19