Also known as Manchar

Where: Sind, Pakistan (26.3° N, 67.8° E: paleocoordinates 22.7° N, 68.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Manchar Formation, Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)

• believed to have come from the same c. 40 m stratigraphic interval in the middle of the section yielding collections 5, 4, 6, 15, and 16 of Raza et al.

•"more than 13 my old" and substantially less than "15 or 16 my old" (probably equivalent to Serravallian)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; silty sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: 1914/1915 collection of B. B. Gupta described by Pilgrim (1917)

Primary reference: S. M. Raza, J. C. Barry, G. E. Meyer and L. Martin. 1984. Preliminary report on the geology and vertebrate fauna of the Miocene Manchar Formation, Sind, Pakistan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 4(4):584-599 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71440: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 25.04.2007

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