Badam: Late/Upper Pliocene, India
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Archidiskodon sp.
Pohling 1888
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= Mammuthus sp.
Brookes 1828
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McKenna and Bell 1997 | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sivalensis
Falconer and Cautley 1849
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Hipparion antelopinum
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Rhinoceros palaeindicus
Falconer and Cautley 1847
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Rhinoceros sivalensis
Falconer and Cautley 1847
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Chilotherium intermedium
Heissig 1972
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Cervus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Leptobos sp.
Rutimeyer 1878
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Hemibos sp.
Falconer 1865
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Bos sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Bison sp.
Hamilton-Smith 1827
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Bubalus sp.
Hamilton-Smith 1827
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Proamphibos sp.
Pilgrim 1939
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Colossochelys atlas
Falconer and Cautley 1844
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| synonym of Megalochelys sivalensis | |||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Geoemydidae
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Geoclemys sivalensis
Tewari and Badam 1969
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| synonym of Geoclemys hamiltonii | |||||||
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Reptilia
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Crocodylus biporcatus
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Crocodylus palaeindicus
Falconer 1859
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Gavialis browni
Mook 1932
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Geography
| Country: | India |
| Coordinates: | 29.0° North, 80.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 27.8° North, 80.3° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Piacenzian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | poorly lithified conglomeratic conglomerate |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: large boulder conglomerate | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | many |
| Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 39209 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Hunter, A. Turner | Enterer: | D. Ehrenburg, H. O'Regan |
| Modifier: | J. Hunter | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-05-23 19:27:21 | Last modified: | 2004-05-24 10:09:17 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-05-23 19:27:21 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 10584. | 5% 9640 | G.L. Badam. 1977. Fossil mammals of the Upper Siwalik and the problem of the boundary between the Neogene and the Quaternary system in India. Bulletin of the Commission for the Study of the Quaternary Period (47)37-44 [J. Hunter/D. Ehrenburg/J. Hunter] |
Secondary references:
| 7584 | M. C. McKenna and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level 1-640 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |