Mahanadi Valley (Pleistocene of India)

Where: India (22.0° N, 83.9° E: paleocoordinates 21.6° N, 83.8° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

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 237976: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Søren Thomsen on 29.12.2024

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758 deer
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Caprini sp. Gray 1821 antelope
Ovis / Capra
Bubalus palaeindicus Falconer 1868 water buffalo
Bubalus bubalis Linnaeus 1758 water buffalo
Bos sp. Linnaeus 1758 ox
Bos indicus Linnaeus 1758 ox
Bos namadicus Falconer and Cautley 1847 ox
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus asinus Linnaeus 1758 donkey
Equus caballus Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Elephas antiquus" = Palaeoloxodon antiquus
"Elephas antiquus" = Palaeoloxodon antiquus Falconer and Cautley 1847 elephant