Also known as Bugti Hills
Where: Balochistan, Pakistan (29.0° N, 69.1° E: paleocoordinates 23.6° N, 69.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: MN 3 (20.0 - 16.9 Ma)
• from an interval 10 m thick within section B near Kumbi, far to the west of Dera Bugti city
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; ferruginous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1995, 1996
Primary reference: J. -L. Welcomme, P. -O. Antoine, F. Duranthon, P. Mein, and L. Ginsburg. 1997. Nouvelles decouvertes de vertebres miocenes dans le synclina de Dera Bugti (Balouchistan, Pakistan). Comptes Rendus Academie de Science Paris. Sciences de la terr et des planetes 325:531-536 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 77779: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Thiaridae indet. Troschel 1857 snail | |
Viviparidae indet. Gray 1847 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Mammalia | |
Plesiaceratherium sp., Bugtirhinus praecursor n. gen. n. sp., Brachypotherium perimense, Aprotodon fatehjangense, "Dicerorhinus" shabazi, "Dicerorhinus" cf. abeli, Protaceratherium sp.
Plesiaceratherium sp. Young 1937 rhinoceros
Bugtirhinus praecursor n. gen. n. sp. Antoine and Welcomme 2000 rhinoceros
Brachypotherium perimense rhinoceros
Aprotodon fatehjangense Pilgrim 1912 rhinoceros
"Dicerorhinus" shabazi rhinoceros
"Dicerorhinus" cf. abeli rhinoceros
Protaceratherium sp. Abel 1910 rhinoceros | |
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Parabrachyodus hyopotamoides anthracothere
Sivameryx palaeindicum anthracothere | |
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Amphicyon cf. cooperi bear-dog | |
Prodeinotherium pentapotamiae Falconer and Lydekker 1876 deinothere | |
Gomphotherium sp. Burmeister 1837 gomphothere | |
Reptilia | |
Testudinidae indet. Batsch 1788 turtle | |
Gavialis breviceps Pilgrim 1912 crocodilian | |
Crocodylus bugtiensis crocodile | |
Actinopteri | |
Siluridae indet. Cuvier 1816 catfish |