Where: Himachal Pradesh, India (32.2° N, 76.3° E: paleocoordinates 24.9° N, 76.5° E)
When: upper Dharmsala Range Formation (Dharmsala and Siwalik Group), Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; metamorphosed, gray mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: permineralized
Primary reference: B. N. Tiwari, B. C. Verma, and A. Bhandari. 2006. Record of Prodeinotherium (proboscidea: Mammalia) from mid-tertiary dharmsala group of the Kangra valley, NW Himalaya, India: Biochronologic and palaeobiogeographic implications. Journal of The Palaeontological Society of India 51:93-100 [M. Uhen/T. Smith/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 214538: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Taylor Smith on 05.10.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Prodeinotherium orlovii Sahni and Tripathi 1957 deinothere |