Where: Gujarat, India (23.4° N, 71.0° E: paleocoordinates 19.1° N, 70.9° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Chhasra Formation, Langhian to Langhian (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• Based on the mammalian assemblage, Kapur et al. (2019) estimated a Middle Miocene (Langhian-Serravallian; ~14 ± 2 Ma) age
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•five ossiferous levels/horizons
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; gray, sandy siltstone
•consists predominantly of clay, silt, and sand- stone and conglomerate alternating with successive deposits of coarse-grained sandstone and gravelly lag deposits at the top
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 2007, 2015
• housed in the Department of Geology, Panjab University, Chandigarh and Department of Geology, Cen- tral University of Punjab under the collection codes: VPL/PU/KT, VPL/PU/KPS, BIOPS/CUP/KT, and BIOPS/CUP/KP
Primary reference: V. V. Kapur, M. Pickford, G. Chauhan and M. G. Thakkar. 2021. A Middle Miocene (~14 Ma) vertebrate assemblage from Palasava, Rapar Taluka, Kutch (Kachchh) District, Gujarat State, western India. Historical Biology 33(5):595-615 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 203629: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 21.08.2019, edited by Grace Varnham and Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Aves indet. bird BSIP41787 and BSIP41788; possibly represent the family Phoenicopteridae or Ciconiidae
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Reptilia | |
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cf. Uromastyx sp. Merrem 1820 spiny-tailed lizard | |
Pelomedusidae indet. Cope 1868 sideneck turtle | |
Trionychidae indet. softshell turtle
Cyclanorbinae indet. softshell turtle | |
Mammalia | |
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821 antelope | |
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Giraffoidea indet. Gray 1821 ruminant | |
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Actinopteri | |
Teleostei indet. Müller 1846 | |
Cyprinidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 carp-like fish | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816 requiem shark | |
Myliobatis sp. Cuvier 1816 eagle ray | |
Pristis sp. Linck 1790 sawfish | |
Selachimorpha indet. Nelson 1984 elasmobranch |