Kargil-Akchamal-Batalik Road, km stone 4 (K/4a horizon) (Oligocene of India)

Also known as 3.5 km ESE of Kargil township

Where: Jammu and Kashmir, India (34.6° N, 76.1° E: paleocoordinates 24.9° N, 76.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kargil Formation (Ladakh Molasse Group), Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• Wakka Chu section - K/4a horizon

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; gray, silty shale

• Grey silty shale

Size class: mesofossils

Collected in 1992

Primary reference: K. Kumar, A. C. Nanda, and B. N. Tiwari. 1996. Rodents from the Oligo-Miocene Kargil Formation, Ladakh, India: Biochronologic and palaeobiogeographic implications. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 202(3):383-407 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180533: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 21.07.2016

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Diatomyidae
Fallomus razae Flynn et al. 1986 rodent
WIMF/A 1295
Fallomus ladakhensis Nanda and Sahni 1998 rodent
WIMF/A 1290
 Rodentia - Chapattimyidae
Zindapiria "n. sp." Flynn and Cheema 1994 rodent
WIMF/A 1292
Wakkamys hartenbergeri Kumar et al. 1996 rodent
WIMF/A 1291