Matanomadh (Oligocene of India)

Where: Gujarat, India (23.5° N, 69.0° E: paleocoordinates 15.6° N, 67.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bermoti Member (Maniyara Fort Formation), Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, yellow, silty marl

• there is "no doubt that this locality sampled a marine environment" (Thewissen and Bajpai 2008)
• "soft, yellow silty marls" (Thewissen and Bajpai 2008)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collected in 2004

• material is in the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

Primary reference: R. J. G. Savage and B. S. Tewari. 1977. A new sirenian from Kutch, India. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 20:216-218 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51585: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 08.06.2005, edited by John Alroy

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Matanomictis maniyarensis n. gen. n. sp.3
Matanomictis maniyarensis n. gen. n. sp.3 Thewissen and Bajpai 2008 mustelid carnivore
 Sirenia - Sirenia
Sirenia indet.
 Sirenia - Dugongidae
Halitherium sp.2, Bharatisiren indica n. sp.1
Halitherium sp.2 Kaup 1838 dugong
Bharatisiren indica n. sp.1 Bajpai et al. 2006 dugong
1Bajpai et al. 2006; 2Sahni and Mishra 1975; 3Thewissen and Bajpai 2008