Also known as PDL-16, Vitakri
Where: Balochistan, Pakistan (29.7° N, 69.4° E: paleocoordinates 13.4° S, 57.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Vitakri Formation (Fort Munro Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• "... found from the red, maroon and greenish grey mud/clays/paleosol zone of upper of Pab Formation, just below or on the (K-T) boundary of Mesozoic (Cretaceous) and Cenozoic (Tertiary/Paleocene)... [found] in the Central periphery of Sulaiman range..."
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; gray, green, red claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by M. S. Malkani
Primary reference: M. S. Malkani. 2006. Biodiversity of saurischian dinosaurs from the latest Cretaceous Park of Pakistan. Journal of Applied and Emerging Sciences 1(3):108-140 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 220157: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.05.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Khanazeem saraikistani Malkani 2023 sauropod MSM-17-16; caudal vertebrae MSM-510-16 and MSM-154-16; distal radius MSM-160-16; and proximal slender tibia MSM-1032-16, and mid humerus MSM-468-16
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