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/7b horizon

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; blue, 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 180534: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 21.07.2016, edited by Katherine Cruz

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