15 miles East of Chandigarh: Early/Lower Pleistocene, India
collected by Barnum Brown

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Crocodylus sivalensis (Lydekker 1886)
synonym of Crocodylus palaeindicus
AMNH FR 1915 (skull)
see common names

Geography
Country:India State/province:Panjab
Coordinates: 30.7° North, 76.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.0° North, 77.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Early/Lower Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Siwaliks Member:Upper
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Immediately below the Boulder Conglomerate

Upper siwalik group comprises the Tatrot Formation (~5.26–2.5Ma), Pinjor Formation (~2.5–1.7Ma) and Boulder Conglomerate Formation (~1.7 to ~0.5 Ma) (see Kumaravel et al. 2005).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:AMNH
Collectors:Barnum Brown
Metadata
Database number:144124
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-05-01 01:41:57 Last modified:2024-04-29 10:51:53
Access level:the public Released:2013-05-01 01:41:57
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
46607. C. C. Mook. 1933. A skull with jaws of Crocodilus sivalensis Lydekker. American Museum Novitates 670:1-10 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

88301 N. Chabrol, A. M. Jukar, R. Patnaik and P. D. Mannion. 2024. Osteology of Crocodylus palaeindicus from the late Miocene–Pleistocene of South Asia and the phylogenetic relationships of crocodyloids. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 22(1):2313133 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]