Also known as PDL-15
Where: Balochistan, Pakistan (29.7° N, 69.4° E: paleocoordinates 13.4° S, 57.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Vitakri Formation (Fort Munro Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• "... found from the red, maroon and greenish grey mud/clays/paleosol zone of upper of Pab Formation, just below or on the (K-T) boundary of Mesozoic (Cretaceous) and Cenozoic (Tertiary/Paleocene)... [found] in the Central periphery of Sulaiman range..."
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; gray, green, red claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by M. S. Malkani
Primary reference: M. S. Malkani. 2006. Biodiversity of saurischian dinosaurs from the latest Cretaceous Park of Pakistan. Journal of Applied and Emerging Sciences 1(3):108-140 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 79665: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Balochisaurus malkani n. gen. n. sp., Marisaurus jeffi n. gen. n. sp.
Marisaurus jeffi n. gen. n. sp. Malkani 2004 sauropod MSM-7-15, 29-15 to 33-15; 34-16, 35-16, 163-15 to 165-15, 169-15, 815-15
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Pakisaurus balochistani Malkani 2004 sauropod MSM-15-15; caudal vertebra MSM-1005-15; a partial tibia including proximal slender tibia (MSM-72-2)
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Gspsaurus pakistani4 Malkani 2014 sauropod proximal pubis MSM-165-15, distal ischium MSM-164-15, proximal femur MSM-169-15 with distal femur MSM-70-15, distal right scapula MSM-163-15
Saraikimasoom vitakri3 Malkani 2014 sauropod MSM-675-15, proximal humerus MSM-245-15 and distal humerus MSM-174-15; MSM-78-15, MSM-227-15, MSM-297-15, MSM-750-15, MSM-166-15, MSN-173-15, MSM-749-15 and MSM-167-15, MSM-246-15
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