Khetpurali: Piacenzian, India
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Potamidae
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Acanthopotamon martensi
Wood-Mason 1875
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Klaus et al. 2017 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Pelecaniformes
- Pelecanidae
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Pelecanus ? sivalensis
Davies 1880
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Suliformes
- Anhingidae
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Anhinga sp.
Brisson 1760
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Stidham et al. 2017 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
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Reptilia
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Crocodylus palustris
(Lesson 1831)
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Srivastava and Schleich 2018 | |||||||||
| WIF/A 463 (cranium fragment) | ||||||||||
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Gavialis cf. gangeticus
Gmelin 1789
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Srivastava and Schleich 2018 | |||||||||
| WIF/A 460 (partial skull) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | India |
| Coordinates: | 30.7° North, 77.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 29.5° North, 77.4° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Piacenzian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Piacenzian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Tatrot |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Lithology description: fine, medium, and coarse-grained, grey sandstones and variegated mudstones | |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
| Geology comments: low sinuosity streams | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 176226 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen, P. Holroyd, P. Mannion, J. Wolfe | Enterer: | M. Uhen, J. Wolfe, P. Holroyd, G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-02-02 12:30:37 | Last modified: | 2016-02-02 12:30:37 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-02-02 12:30:37 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 57882. | T. A. Stidham, K. Krishan, B. Singh, A. Ghosh, and R. Patnaik. 2014. A Pelican Tarsometatarsus (Aves: Pelecanidae) from the Latest Pliocene Siwaliks of India. PLoS One 9(11):e11210 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 80198 | S. Klaus, B. Singh, L. Hartmann, K. Krishan, A. Ghosh and R. Patnaik. 2017. A fossil freshwater crab from the Pliocene Tatrot Formation (Siwalik Group) in Northern India (Crustacea, Brachyura, Potamidae). Palaeoworld 26:566-571 [J. Wolfe/J. Wolfe] | |
| 79680 | R. Srivastava and H. H. Schleich. 2018. Fossil turtles and crocodiles from the Caenozoic of S-Asia. [P. Mannion/G. Varnham] | |
| 63528 | T. Stidham, R. Patnaik, K. Krishan, B. Singh, A. Ghosh, A. Singla, and S. S. Kotla. 2017. The first darter (Aves: Anhingidae) fossils from India (late Pliocene). PLoS ONE 12(e0177129):1-16 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] |