Also known as Narmada River
Where: Madhya Pradesh, India (22.7° N, 81.7° E: paleocoordinates 22.7° N, 81.7° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• "The Narmada alluvium is nearly 18 m thick at the locality" and the fossils are "from its basal gravel-conglomerate bed... This is nearly 3 m thick" and "Middle Pleistocene"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by A. Sonakia in 1982
Primary reference: A. Sonakia. 1985. Skull cap of an early man from the Narmada Valley alluvium (Pleistocene) of central India. American Anthropologist 87(3):612-616 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis
PaleoDB collection 92786: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 29.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Stegodon ganesa Falconer and Cautley 1875 elephant
Stegodon insignis Falconer 1857 elephant | |
Homo sp. Linnaeus 1758 human | |
Bos namadicus Falconer and Cautley 1847 ox | |
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758 deer | |
Hippopotamus namadicus hippo | |
Equus namadicus horse |