Where: Minanwali, Pakistan (32.9° N, 71.7° E: paleocoordinates 29.0° N, 73.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Chinji Formation (Siwalik Group), Middle Miocene to Middle Miocene (16.0 - 7.2 Ma)
• Includes localities H-GSP 17, 18, 19
•age given only as Miocene, but unambiguously Tortonian based on the faunal list (JA)
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•This formation is about 11.2 to 14.2 Ma in age (Barry et al., 2002).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; silty, calcareous sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),
Primary reference: S. T. Hussain and R. M. West. 1979. Daud Khel local fauna: a preliminary report on a Neogene vertebrate assemblage from the Trans-Indus Siwaliks, Pakistan. Milwaukee Public Museum Contributions in Biology and Geology 16(1):1-17 [W. Clyde/W. Clyde/W. Clyde]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 13489: authorized by Will Clyde, entered by John Finarelli on 03.04.2002, edited by Will Clyde, Lars van den Hoek Ostende and Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
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Soricidae indet. Fischer 1814 shrew | |
Erinaceidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817 hedgehog | |
Dissopsalis carnifex Pilgrim 1910 creodont | |
Listriodon sp. von Meyer 1846 pig
Listriodon pentapotamiae Falconer 1870 pig | |
Palaeochoerus sp. Pomel 1847 even-toed ungulate | |
Dorcatherium sp. Kaup 1839 chevrotain
Dorcatherium minus Lydekker 1876 chevrotain | |
Giraffokeryx sp. Pilgrim 1910 giraffe
Giraffokeryx punjabiensis Pilgrima 1910 giraffe | |
Gazella sp. Blaineville 1816 gazelle
Miotragocerus sp. Stromer 1928 antelope | |
Gaindatherium browni Colbert 1934 rhinoceros
Brachypotherium perimense rhinoceros
Chilotherium sp. Ringström 1924 rhinoceros | |
cf. Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse | |
Muridae indet. Illiger 1811 mouse
Antemus cf. chinjiensis Jacobs 1977 mouse | |
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Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922 gomphothere | |
Reptilia | |
Agamidae indet. Gray 1827 squamates | |
Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle | |
Actinopteri | |
Siluriformes indet. catfish |