Dera Bugti Level 4: MN 3, Pakistan
collected 1995, 1996

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Thiaridae
Thiaridae indet. Troschel 1857
Gastropoda - Viviparidae
Bivalvia - Unionida - Margaritiferidae
unclassified
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Prodeinotherium pentapotamiae (Falconer and Lydekker 1876)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotherium sp. Burmeister 1837
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Antoine and Welcomme 2000
Dera Bugti 4, Kumbi 4b, Kumbi 4c ("corresponding to the classical 'Gaj of Kumbi'"), and Kumbi 4f
Aprotodon fatehjangense (Pilgrim 1912)
Mammalia - Anthracotheriidae
Mammalia - Pecora
very small sized "sp. 1"
Mammalia - Suidae
small sized
Antoine and Welcomme 2000
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Reptilia
Reptilia - Gavialidae
Gavialis breviceps Pilgrim 1912
Gavialis curvirostris Lydekker 1886
"Gavialis curvirostris naricus"
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:19.9° North, 70.3° 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 3
Age range of interval: 20 - 16.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: from an interval 10 m thick within section B near Kumbi, far to the west of Dera Bugti city
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:ferruginous sandstone
Lithology description: 10 m of creamy sand ending in a ferruginous crust of 0.40 m that also is fossiliferous
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
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:77779
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-01-19 20:25:30 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2008-01-19 20:25:30
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]