Ganga Valley (Pleistocene of India)

Also known as Ganges Valley

Where: Uttar Pradesh, India (26.0° N, 81.0° E: paleocoordinates 25.6° N, 81.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; conglomerate and gravel

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. R. Chauhan. 2008. Large mammal fossil occurrences and associated archaeological evidence in Pleistocene contexts of peninsular India and Sri Lanka. Quaternary International 192(1):20-42more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 237974: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Søren Thomsen on 29.12.2024

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus onager horse
khur
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Stegodon sp. Falconer 1857 elephant
Stegodon insignis Falconer 1857 elephant
Elephas sp. Linnaeus 1758 elephant
"Elephas antiquus" = Palaeoloxodon antiquus Falconer and Cautley 1847 elephant
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bos sp. Linnaeus 1758 ox
Bubalus sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 water buffalo
Antilope sp. Pallas 1766 antelope
Gazella sp. Blaineville 1816 gazelle
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758 deer
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinoceros sp. Linnaeus 1758 one-horned rhinoceros
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse