Also known as Piram Island
Where: Gujarat, India (21.6° N, 72.4° E: paleocoordinates 18.6° N, 72.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Piram Conglomerate Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Captain Fulljames and Miss Pepper in 1836
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
Primary reference: H. Falconer and P. T. Cautley. 1847. Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis. Being the fossil zoology of the Sewalik Hills in the north of India. Illustrations–Part VIII Suidae and Rhinocerotidae. [A. Jukar/A. Jukar]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 203112: authorized by Advait Jukar, entered by Advait Jukar on 26.07.2019, edited by Mark Uhen, Grace Varnham and Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Rhinoceros perimensis n. sp." = Aceratherium perimense
"Rhinoceros perimensis n. sp." = Aceratherium perimense Falconer and Cautley 1847 rhinoceros | |
Capra perimensis n. sp.2
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Bramatherium perimense n. gen. n. sp.1
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Deinotherium indicum n. sp.4
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"Mastodon pandionis" = Mastodon (Trilophodon) pandionis3
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"Mastodon perimensis n. sp." = Mastodon (Tetralophodon) perimensis3
"Mastodon perimensis n. sp." = Mastodon (Tetralophodon) perimensis3 Falconer and Cautley 1875 mastodon | |
Reptilia | |
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