Manjra (Pleistocene of India)

Where: India (19.0° N, 74.0° E: paleocoordinates 18.7° N, 74.0° 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 238017: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Søren Thomsen on 03.01.2025

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
Hexaprotodon palaeindicus Falconer and Cautley 1847 pygmy hippo
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Axis axis Erxleben 1777 chital
Cervus unicolor Kerr 1792 sambar
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Antilope cervicapra Linnaeus 1758 blackbuck
Bos namadicus Falconer and Cautley 1847 ox
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Sus sp. Linnaeus 1758 pig
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinoceros deccanensis Foote 1874 one-horned rhinoceros
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas sp. Linnaeus 1758 elephant
Elephas namadicus/maximus
Stegodon ganesa Falconer and Cautley 1875 elephant
Stegodon insignis Falconer 1857 elephant