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 3 - 5 m thick within section B near Kumbi, far to the west of Dera Bugti city
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
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 77780: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Siluridae indet. Cuvier 1816 catfish | |
Reptilia | |
Crocodylus bugtiensis crocodile | |
Testudinidae indet. Batsch 1788 turtle | |
Mammalia | |
Choerolophodon cf. corrugatus proboscidean | |
Prodeinotherium pentapotamiae Falconer and Lydekker 1876 deinothere | |
Aprotodon fatehjangense Pilgrim 1912 rhinoceros | |
Parabrachyodus hyopotamoides anthracothere
Sivameryx palaeindicum anthracothere | |
"Prokanisamys cf. benjavuni" = Kanisamys benjavuni, ? Megacricetodon daamsi, Spanocricetodon khani, Spanocricetodon sp.
"Prokanisamys cf. benjavuni" = Kanisamys benjavuni Mein and Ginsburg 1985 mouse
? Megacricetodon daamsi mouse
Spanocricetodon khani mouse
Spanocricetodon sp. Li 1977 mouse |