Godavari Valley (Pleistocene of India)

Where: India (18.9° N, 78.2° E: paleocoordinates 18.5° N, 78.1° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; 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 237977: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Søren Thomsen on 29.12.2024

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
Hexaprotodon namadicus Falconer and Cautley 1847 pygmy hippo
Hexaprotodon / Hippopotamus namadicus
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758 deer
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bubalus palaeindicus Falconer 1868 water buffalo
Bubalus bubalis Linnaeus 1758 water buffalo
Bos sp. Linnaeus 1758 ox
Bos namadicus Falconer and Cautley 1847 ox
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinoceros cf. unicornis Linnaeus 1758 Indian rhinoceros
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas "namadicus/maximus" Linnaeus 1758 elephant
Elephas sp. Linnaeus 1758 elephant
Stegodon insignis Falconer 1857 elephant