List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Testudines indet.
Batsch 1788
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| Abundant fragments of heavily mineralized turtle bones | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Pristichampsinae indet.
Kuhn 1968
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| VPL/L 800086 (left premaxilla accompanied by the anteriormost part of the left maxilla), VPL/L 10110 (teeth) and VPL/L 10120 (tooth) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | India | State/province: | Himachal Pradesh |
| Coordinates: | 31.0° North, 77.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 6.6° North, 70.5° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Altitude: | 1202 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Subathu | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Lower part of Zone III of Mathur (1978)
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) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | fine,medium,red conglomerate |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: 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 | |
| Environment: | "floodplain" |
| Geology comments: Overbank deposit | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Minimum sieve size: | 850.000 | Maximum sieve size: | 0.150 |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Locality KK | ||
| Database number: | 144643 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-05-14 21:37:59 | Last modified: | 2022-02-11 04:58:45 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-05-14 21:37:59 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 46804. | 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] |