Pipal Wala Village (Pliocene of India)

Where: India (30.5° N, 77.3° E: paleocoordinates 29.4° N, 77.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Saketi Formation (Siwalik Group), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Srivastava and H. H. Schleich. 2018. Fossil turtles and crocodiles from the Caenozoic of S-Asia. [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 224296: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Grace Varnham on 10.02.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Emydidae
Omegachelys sahnii n. sp. Srivastava and Schleich 2018 turtle
Holotype: SFP-24 (anterior carapace)