Aiji Village (Eocene of India)

Also known as Metka-Mohgala Road

Where: Jammu and Kashmir, India (32.5° N, 75.5° E: paleocoordinates 12.3° N, 70.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Subathu Group, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray siltstone

• Grey siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. Kumar. 1991. Anthracobune aijiensis nov. sp. (Mammalia: Proboscidea) from the Subathu Formation, Eocene from NW Himalaya, India. Geobios 24(2):221-239 [B. Beatty/B. Beatty/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180536: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 21.07.2016, edited by Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Creodonta -
Paratritemnodon indicus1 Ranga Rao 1973 creodont
WIF/A 1103
 Perissodactyla - Anthracobunidae
Anthracobune aijiensis n. sp. Kumar 1991 odd-toed ungulate
WIF/A 1101 - type; referred material: WIF/A 616 and 1176
 Artiodactyla - Raoellidae
Rajouria gunnelli n. gen. n. sp.2
Rajouria gunnelli n. gen. n. sp.2 Rana et al. 2021 even-toed ungulate