Also known as PDL-19n, Vitakri, North Alam

Where: Balochistan, Pakistan (29.7° N, 69.4° E: paleocoordinates 13.4° S, 57.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• 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

• Describes new rostrum "preserving the articulated premaxilla along with narial, dorsolateral and lateral processes; external naris; partial nasal, palate and maxilla" (MSM-155-19). Also listed are proximal left (MSM-59-19) and right (MSM-60-19) femurs, Basioccipital condyle along with partial braincase (MSM-61-19), and a tooth (MSM-62-19) presumed to belong to the same individual.

Collected by M. S. Malkani in 2000-2001

• Museum of the Geological Survey of Pakistan, Quetta, collection

Primary reference: M. S. Malkani. 2009. New Balochisaurus (Balochisauridae, Titanosauria, Sauropoda) and Vitakridrinda (Theropoda) remains From Pakistan. Sindh University Research Journal (Science Series) 41(2):65-92 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 220160: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.05.2021

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