Also known as Kargil-Shanko road

Where: Jammu and Kashmir, India (34.6° N, 76.1° E: paleocoordinates 24.9° N, 76.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kargil Formation (Ladakh Molasse Group), Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; red shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: P. C. Dixit, R. K. Kachroo, H. Rai and N. L. Sharma. 1971. Discovery of vertebrate fossils from the Kargil basin, Ladakh (Jammu and Kashmir). Current Science 40:633-634 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180535: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 21.07.2016

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