Gandhera Quarry: Ypresian, Pakistan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Indusius kaliae n. gen., n. sp. Gunnell et al. 2008
recombined as Indusomys kaliae
Kohatius cf. coppensi Russell and Gingerich 1980
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae
Panobius russelli n. sp. Gunnell et al. 2008
Mammalia - Primates
Sulaimania arifi n. gen., n. sp. Gunnell et al. 2008
recombined as Sulaimanius arifi
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Isectolophidae
Gandheralophus minor n. gen., n. sp. Missiaen and Gingerich 2012
Missiaen and Gingerich 2012
GSP−UM 6770 - holotype
see common names

Geography
Country:Pakistan State/province:Balochistan
Coordinates: 30.4° North, 69.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:5.2° North, 63.8° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Ypresian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Ypresian
Age range of interval:56.00000 - 47.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ghazij
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Late early Eocene (Ypresian); upper part of the upper Ghazij Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "siltstone"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: GSP-UM collection
Taxonomic list comments:remaining fauna not discussed
Metadata
Database number:87933
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Mannion Enterer:J. Alroy, P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-03-29 11:58:23 Last modified:2016-07-05 04:16:21
Access level:the public Released:2009-03-29 11:58:23
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
29569. G. F. Gunnell, P. D. Gingerich, M. Haq, J. I. Bloch, I. H. Khan and W. C. Clyde. 2008. New primates (Mammalia) from the early and middle Eocene of Pakistan and their paleobiogeographical implications. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 32(1):1-14 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

59716 P. Missiaen and P. D. Gingerich. 2012. New early Eocene tapiromorph perissodactyls from the Ghazij Formation of Pakistan, with implications for mammalian biochronology in Asia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57(1):21-34 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]