Chandigarh Pinjor Beds (general region) (Pleistocene of India)

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

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Gavialidae
Gavialis sp., "Gavialis gangeticus" = Gavialis gangeticus, "Gavialis hysudricus n. sp." = Gavialis gangeticus
Gavialis sp. Oppel 1811 gharial
NHMUK R.325, 39808, 39811a, 48461, 39811 and 48461
"Gavialis gangeticus" = Gavialis gangeticus Gmelin 1789 Gharial
NHMUK R.774, 785, 786, 791, 36726, 36727 and 39809
"Gavialis hysudricus n. sp." = Gavialis gangeticus Gmelin 1789 Gharial
NHMUK R.39805 - type