Isolated find (Pleistocene of India)

Where: Assam, India (26.0° N, 93.0° E: paleocoordinates 25.5° N, 93.0° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• 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 238023: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Søren Thomsen on 03.01.2025

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas maximus Linnaeus 1758 Asian elephant