Sindkhatudi Bone Bed (Eocene of India)

Also known as Sindkhatuti

Where: Jammu and Kashmir, India (33.2° N, 74.4° E: paleocoordinates 13.3° N, 69.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Murree Group, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• overly the Subathu Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified, green, red, silty mudstone and siltstone

• "purple/green silty mudstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. Rao, S. Bajpai, B. N. Tiwari

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• "approximately 225 specimens"; material was "extracted in the lab... from indurated blocks"

Primary reference: A. Ranga Rao. 1971. New mammals from Murree (Kalakot Zone) of the Himalayan foot hills near Kalakot, Jammu & Kasmir State, India. Journal of the Geological Society of India 12(2):125-134 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77524: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 14.01.2008, edited by Mark Uhen and Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

• "some other mammals" than Indohyus are present but not named
Gnathostomata
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Reptilia
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Reptilia indet.1 Laurenti 1768 reptile
 Squamata - Boidae
Boinae indet.1 Gray 1825 boa
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla -
Aulaxolophus quadrangularis n. gen. n. sp.3, Kalakotia simplicidentata n. gen. n. sp.3
Aulaxolophus quadrangularis n. gen. n. sp.3 Ranga Rao 1972 odd-toed ungulate
Kalakotia simplicidentata n. gen. n. sp.3 Ranga Rao 1972 odd-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Diacodexeidae
Diacodexis sp.1 Cope 1882 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Raoellidae
Raoellidae indet.1, "Bunodentus inflatus n. gen. n. sp." = Khirtharia inflatus3, "Indohyus indirae n. sp." = Indohyus indirae, "Indohyus kalakotensis n. sp." = Indohyus indirae
Raoellidae indet.1 Sahni et al. 1981 even-toed ungulate
"Bunodentus inflatus n. gen. n. sp." = Khirtharia inflatus3 Ranga Rao 1972 even-toed ungulate
"Indohyus indirae n. sp." = Indohyus indirae Ranga Rao 1971 even-toed ungulate
"Indohyus kalakotensis n. sp." = Indohyus indirae Ranga Rao 1971 even-toed ungulate
 Rodentia - Chapattimyidae
Basalomys vandermeulelli2 rodent
WIMF/A 1271