Also known as Siwalik Hills; Gavialis leptodus type locality
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: Late/Upper Pliocene to Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• from the Tatrot Formation (late Pliocene) or Pinjor Formation (early Pleistocene)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Cautley 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 198813: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 11.01.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Gavialis leptodus n. sp.
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