Dera Bugti Level 6: MN 4, Pakistan
collected 1995, 1996

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Choerolophodontidae
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotherium sp. Burmeister 1837
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ctenodactylidae
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Prokanisamys benjavuni (Mein and Ginsburg 1985)
Mammalia - Soricidae
Soricidae indet. Fischer 1814
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Mammalia - Hyaenodonta
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Aprotodon fatehjangense (Pilgrim 1912)
Mammalia - Suidae
Listriodon pentapotamiae (Falconer 1870)
Antoine and Welcomme 2000
Mammalia - Tragulidae
Dorcatherium cf. parvum Whitworth 1958
Mammalia - Pecora
small sized "sp. II" and "sp. III"
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Mammalia - Cetacea
Actinopteri - Siluriformes - Siluridae
Siluridae indet. Cuvier 1816
see common names

Geography
Country:Pakistan State/province:Balochistan
Coordinates: 29.0° North, 69.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:21.0° North, 70.4° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: MN 4
Age range of interval: 16.9 - 15.98 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: from an interval 2 m thick within section B near Kumbi, far to the west of Dera Bugti city
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "more or less consolidated sand"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:1995, 1996
Metadata
Also known as:Bugti Hills
Database number:69540
Authorizer:M. Uhen, J. Alroy Enterer:M. Uhen, J. Alroy
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-02-27 14:48:59 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2007-02-27 14:48:59
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
23349. J. -L. Welcomme, P. -O. Antoine, F. Duranthon, P. Mein, and L. Ginsburg. 1997. Nouvelles decouvertes de vertebres miocenes dans le synclina de Dera Bugti (Balouchistan, Pakistan). Comptes Rendus Academie de Science Paris. Sciences de la terr et des planetes 325:531-536 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

24366 P.-O. Antoine and J.-L. Welcomme. 2000. A new rhinoceros from the lower Miocene of the Bugti Hills, Baluchistan, Pakistan: the earliest elasmotheriine. Palaeontology 43(5):795-816 [B. Beatty/B. Beatty/J. Alroy]
26268 J.-L. Welcomme and L. Ginsburg. 1997. Mise en évidence de l'Oligocène sur le territoire des Bugti (Balouchistan, Pakistan). Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science 325(12):999-1004 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]