Also known as Siwalik Hills
Where: India (30.8° N, 76.9° E: paleocoordinates 30.0° N, 77.1° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Pinjor Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• Pinjor Beds, early Pleistocene, Upper Siwalik
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Cautley and Falconer in the 1830s; reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: J. E. Martin. 2019. The taxonomic content of the genus Gavialis from the Siwalik Hills of India and Pakistan. Papers in Palaeontology 5(3):483-497 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 198812: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 11.01.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Gavialis sp., "Gavialis gangeticus" = Gavialis gangeticus, "Gavialis hysudricus n. sp." = Gavialis gangeticus
"Gavialis gangeticus" = Gavialis gangeticus Gmelin 1789 Gharial NHMUK R.774, 785, 786, 791, 36726, 36727 and 39809
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