Kangra (Pliocene to of India)
Where: Himachal Pradesh, India (32.1° N, 76.3° E: paleocoordinates 31.0° N, 76.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Siwalik Group, Pliocene to Pliocene (5.3 - 0.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. Lydekker. 1878. Crania of ruminants from the Indian Tertiaries. Palaeontologia Indica 10(1):88-171 [B. Allen/B. Allen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 232188: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 30.10.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Mastodon sivalensis" = Mastodon (Tetralophodon) sivalensis
"Mastodon sivalensis" = Mastodon (Tetralophodon) sivalensis Falconer and Cautley 1875 mastodon "third lower milk-molar implanted in a fragment of the right ramus of the mandible"
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Stegodon bombifrons Falconer 1847 elephant "first upper true molar implanted in a fragment of the left maxilla" "cranium lacking a portion of the left frontal region"
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Bos platyrhinus n. sp., Antilope sivalensis n. sp.
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