Sherullah 9 (Miocene of Afghanistan)

Where: Kabul, Afghanistan (34.3° N, 69.4° E: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 70.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Vallesian (11.6 - 8.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fine channel fill; gray marl

• This locality corresponds to channel-fill deposits in grey marls that overlie azoic red beds (Brunet et al. 1981)

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Heintz team in 1976–1978; reposited in the MNHN

• The amphibian and reptile studied material originates from the French Paleontological Expeditions to Afghanistan between 1976 and 1979 (Heintz et al. 1978a, b). The AFG material is provisionally deposited in the Paleontology collection of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris.

Primary reference: F. de Lapparent de Broin, S. Bailon, M. L. Augé and J.-C. Rage. 2020. Amphibians and reptiles from the Neogene of Afghanistan. Geodiversitas 42(22):409-426 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 214146: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 17.09.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Amphibia
 Salientia -
Anura indet.
Anura indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1813 frog
Five fragments of toothed maxillae (AFG 1656), 1 fragment of angulosplenial (AFG 1657), 1 fragment of atlas (AFG 1658), 5 amphicoelous presacral vertebrae (AFG 1659), 7 non-amphicoelous presacral vertebrae (AFG 1660), 5 opisthocoelous sacral vertebrae (AFG 1661), 2 procoelous sacral vertebrae (AFG 1662), 5 fragments of urostyles (AFG 1663), 34 ilia (AFG 1664), 3 fragmentary humeri (AFG 1665), 3 fragments of radioulna (AFG 1666), 1 fragment of femur (AFG 1667).
 Salientia - Alytidae
Discoglossinae indet.
Discoglossinae indet. Günther 1859 midwife toads
One fragmentary humerus (AFG 1650), 1 incomplete vertebra (AFG 1651).
 Salientia - Ranidae
Ranidae indet.
Ranidae indet. Rafinesque 1814 frog
One coracoid (AFG 1652), 3 humeri (AFG 1653, 1654), 1 ilium (AFG 1655).
Reptilia
 Squamata -
Squamata indet.
Squamata indet. squamates
One fragment of bone with teeth (AFG 1668), 1 incomplete vertebra (AFG 1669).
 Squamata - Elapidae
Elapidae indet., Xenodermus sp.
Elapidae indet. Boié 1827 snake
Eight vertebrae (AFG 1671).
Xenodermus sp. Reinhardt 1836 snake
or Bungarus; Two incomplete vertebrae (AFG 1672, AFG 1673)
 Squamata - Colubridae
Colubridae indet.
Colubridae indet. Oppel 1811 colubrid snake
Two incomplete vertebrae (AFG 1670).
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Agrionemys sp.
Agrionemys sp. Khosatzky and Mlynarsky 1966 turtle
AFG 130, left epiplastron (Fig. 3F); AFG 131, peripheral plate, fragment without distal border (Fig. 3J); AFG 132, pygal plate fragment (Fig. 3A); AFG 133, peripheral plate, fragment with free border; AFG 134, peripheral plate, fragment (Fig. 3K); AFG 135, neural 5 (Fig. 3C); AFG 136 [+ 138 (10)], fragmentary right xiphiplastron (Fig. 3G, H2); AFG 137, plate fragment; AFG 138 including 10 specimens: 138(1) and 138(2), peripheral plate fragments with preserved distal border; 138(3), peripheral plate fragment without the border; 138(4) (5) (6) (7) (8), plate fragments; 138(9), fragmentary left epiplastron (Fig. 3D); 138(11) fragment of a xiphiplastral anal part (Fig. 3I, H1).