Krishna valley (Pleistocene of India)

Where: India (16.2° N, 77.9° E: paleocoordinates 15.8° N, 77.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• 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 238019: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Søren Thomsen on 03.01.2025

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas sp. Linnaeus 1758 elephant
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Boselaphus sp. de Blainville 1816 nilgai
Bos sp. Linnaeus 1758 ox
Bos namadicus Falconer and Cautley 1847 ox
Bubalus sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 water buffalo
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758 deer
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus asinus Linnaeus 1758 donkey