Perim Island (Miocene of India)

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
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
"Rhinoceros perimensis n. sp." = Aceratherium perimense
"Rhinoceros perimensis n. sp." = Aceratherium perimense Falconer and Cautley 1847 rhinoceros
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Capra perimensis n. sp.2 Lydekker 1878 goat
 Theriamorpha - Sivatheridae
Bramatherium perimense n. gen. n. sp.1
Bramatherium perimense n. gen. n. sp.1 Falconer 1845 placental
 Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Deinotherium indicum n. sp.4 Falconer 1845 deinothere
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
"Mastodon pandionis" = Mastodon (Trilophodon) pandionis3
"Mastodon pandionis" = Mastodon (Trilophodon) pandionis3 Falconer 1847 gomphothere
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
"Mastodon perimensis n. sp." = Mastodon (Tetralophodon) perimensis3
"Mastodon perimensis n. sp." = Mastodon (Tetralophodon) perimensis3 Falconer and Cautley 1875 mastodon
Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Gavialidae
Gavialis browni5 Mook 1932 gharial
E-24 (rostrum)
Gavialis gangeticus5 Gmelin 1789 Gharial
BMNH-40695 (cranium fragment)
 Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
Crocodylus palaeindicus5 Falconer 1859 crocodile
E-32 (anterior cranium); 18136 (posterior cranium)
Crocodylus cf. palaeindicus5 Falconer 1859 crocodile
KN/751 (E-281) (anterior part of maxillary)