Also known as HGSP 300; Banda Daud Shah fauna
Where: Northwest Frontier, Pakistan (33.3° N, 71.1° E: paleocoordinates 7.4° N, 65.9° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Mami Khel Formation, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)
• early to middle Eocene Kuldana Formation according to Thewissen et al. 1983, early Eocene Mami Khel Formation according to Maas et al. 2001
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; lithified conglomerate
Size class: mesofossils
Collected in 1980s, 1997, 1998; reposited in the UMMP
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),
• Collections are split between Howard University, Geological Survey of Pakistan, UMMP
Primary reference: J. G. M. Thewissen, D. E. B. Russell, P. D. Gingerich and S. T. Hussain. 1983. A new dichobunid artiodactyl (Mammalia) from the Eocene of North-West Pakistan. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen 86(2):153-180 [W. Clyde/W. Clyde/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 51856: authorized by Will Clyde, entered by Will Clyde on 27.06.2005, edited by John Alroy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Angiospermae | |
Celtis sp. Linnaeus 1753 hackberry | |
Chara sp. Linnaeus 1753 stonewort | |
Mammalia | |
"Cocomyidae indet." = Tamquammyidae
"Cocomyidae indet." = Tamquammyidae Shevyreva 1983 rodent | |
Paramyidae indet. Miller and Gidley 1918 rodent | |
"Diacodexis pakistanensis" = Gujaratia pakistanensis
"Diacodexis pakistanensis" = Gujaratia pakistanensis Thewissen et al. 1983 even-toed ungulate | |
Karagalax mamikhelensis n. gen. n. sp.
Karagalax mamikhelensis n. gen. n. sp. Maas et al. 2001 odd-toed ungulate |