Babia Hills (Eocene of India)

Where: Kutch, India (23.5° N, 68.8° E: paleocoordinates 5.9° N, 61.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Harudi Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• late Lutetian (Ravikant & Bajpai, 2010)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; gypsiferous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: P. P. Satsangi and P. K. Mukhopadhyay. 1975. New marine Eocene vertebrates from Kutch. Journal of the Geological Society of India 16(1):84-86 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45592: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 16.11.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Moeritheriidae
Moeritheriidae indet.1
Moeritheriidae indet.1 Andrews 1906 proboscidean
 Cetacea - Remingtonocetidae
Dalanistes ahmedi4, "Remingtonocetus sloani" = Andrewsiphius sloani2, "Andrewsiphius kutchensis" = Andrewsiphius sloani2, Kutchicetus minimus5
Dalanistes ahmedi4 Gingerich et al. 1995 whale
"Remingtonocetus sloani" = Andrewsiphius sloani2 Sahni and Mishra 1972 whale
"Andrewsiphius kutchensis" = Andrewsiphius sloani2 Sahni and Mishra 1972 whale
Kutchicetus minimus5 Bajpai and Thewissen 2000 whale
 Cetacea - Protocetidae
Babiacetus mishrai n. sp.2, Babiacetus indicus n. gen. n. sp.6, Indocetus ramani3, "Gaviacetus sahnii" = Kharodacetus sahnii2
Babiacetus mishrai n. sp.2 Bajpai and Thewissen 1998 whale
Babiacetus indicus n. gen. n. sp.6 Trivedy and Satsangi 1984 whale
Indocetus ramani3 Sahni and Mishra 1975 whale
"Gaviacetus sahnii" = Kharodacetus sahnii2 Bajpai and Thewissen 1998 whale
1Bajpai et al. 1989; 2Bajpai and Thewissen 1998; 3Bajpai and Thewissen 2014; 4Thewissen and Bajpai 2001; 5Thewissen and Bajpai 2009; 6Trivedy and Satsangi 1984