Dera Bugti Level 6: MN 4, Pakistan
collected 1995, 1996
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Megamphicyon giganteus
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Ctenodactylidae
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Sayimys intermedius
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Spanocricetodon khani
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Prokanisamys benjavuni
(Mein and Ginsburg 1985)
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original and current combination Kanisamys benjavuni | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Soricidae indet.
Fischer 1814
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Hoploaceratherium sp.
Ginsburg and Heissig 1989
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Brachypotherium perimense
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Aprotodon fatehjangense
(Pilgrim 1912)
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"Dicerorhinus" ? shabazi
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"Dicerorhinus" cf. abeli
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Listriodon pentapotamiae
(Falconer 1870)
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= Bunolistriodon affinis
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Antoine and Welcomme 2000 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Odontoceti indet.
Flower 1867
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Mammalia
- Tragulidae
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Dorcatherium cf. parvum
Whitworth 1958
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recombined as Afrotragulus parvus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Pecora
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Pecora indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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small sized "sp. II" and "sp. III" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Giraffidae
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Progiraffa exigua
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Mammalia
- Creodonta
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Hyainailouros bugtiensis
Pilgrim 1912
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Amphicyonidae
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Amphicyon cf. cooperi
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Deinotheriidae
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Prodeinotherium pentapotamidae
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Protanancus chinjiensis
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Gomphotherium browni
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Gomphotherium sp.
Burmeister 1837
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Zygolophodon metachinjiensis
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Choerolophodontidae
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Choerolophodon cf. corrugatus
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudinidae indet.
Batsch 1788
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionyx sp.
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809
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Reptilia
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Crocodylus cf. bugtiensis
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Actinopteri
- Siluriformes
- Siluridae
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Siluridae indet.
Cuvier 1816
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Pakistan | State/province: | Balochistan |
Coordinates: | 29.0° North, 69.1° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 24.2° North, 69.8° East | ||
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: | 16.90000 - 15.97000 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: | 2008-08-19 11:22:32 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-02-27 14:48:59 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
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] |