Barbora Banda II (Eocene of Pakistan)

Where: Northwest Frontier, Pakistan (33.3° N, 71.2° E: paleocoordinates 14.2° N, 67.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kuldana Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• "thought to be in the same deposit that yielded mammals at Barbora Banda I; the two localities are considered contemporaneous"; early Lutetian (Gingerich, 2003)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• "grit bands"

Size class: mesofossils

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 51857: authorized by Will Clyde, entered by Will Clyde on 27.06.2005, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Angiospermae
 Rosales - Ulmaceae
Celtis sp. Linnaeus 1753 hackberry
Mammalia
 Placentalia -
Rodentia indet. Bowdich 1821 rodent
 Primates - Omomyidae
cf. Kohatius sp. Russell and Gingerich 1980 tarsier
GSP-UM 212
 Perissodactyla -
Tapiroidea indet. Gill 1872 odd-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Diacodexeidae
"Diacodexis pakistanensis" = Gujaratia pakistanensis
"Diacodexis pakistanensis" = Gujaratia pakistanensis Thewissen et al. 1983 even-toed ungulate