Wapzan (Pleistocene of India)

Also known as Wopzan

Where: Jammu and Kashmir, India (33.8° N, 75.1° E: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 75.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• "Lower Karewa" (Chauhan 1991)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithology not reported

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: M. S. Chauhan. 1991. A Catalogue of Fossil Plants from India Part 6: Cenozoic (Quaternary) Palynology and Palaeobotany. 1-50 [B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 228956: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 23.01.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Alismatales - Potamogetonaceae
Potamogeton sp. Linnaeus 1753 pondweed
 Fagales - Fagaceae
Quercus sp. Linnaeus 1753 oak
 Rosales - Rosaceae
Rosaceae indet. Jussieu 1789 rose
 Rosales - Urticaceae
Urticaceae indet. de Jussieu 1789 nettle
 Rosales - Ulmaceae
Ulmus sp. Linnaeus 1753 elm
 Sapindales - Anacardiaceae
Rhus sp. Linnaeus 1753 sumac
 Ranunculales - Ranunculaceae
Ranunculaceae indet. Jussieu 1789 buttercup
 Caryophyllales - Caryophyllaceae
Caryophyllaceae indet. Jussieu 1789 carnation
 Asterales - Asteraceae
Artemisia sp., "Tubuliflorae indet." = Asteraceae
Artemisia sp. Linnaeus 1753 wormwood
"Tubuliflorae indet." = Asteraceae Berchtold and Presl 1820 daisy
 Apiales - Apiaceae
Apiaceae indet. Lindley 1836
 Poales - Poaceae
Poaceae indet. Barnhart 1895 grass
 Poales - Typhaceae
Typha angustata Bory de Saint-Vincent and Chaubard 1832 bulrush
 Poales - Cyperaceae
Cyperaceae indet. Jussieu 1789 sedge
 Piperales - Piperaceae
Peperomia sp. Ruiz López and Pavón 1794 pepper
 Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Juniperus sp. Linnaeus 1753 juniper
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Pinaceae
Pinus wallichiana Jackson 1938 blue pine