Also known as Bugti Hills; Sartaaf

Where: Balochistan, Pakistan (29.2° N, 68.9° E: paleocoordinates 27.2° N, 69.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: MN 10 to MN 10 (9.7 - 8.7 Ma)

• from the highest conglomeratic beds within section A near Sartaaf, far to the west of Kumbi and even farther to the west of Dera Bugti city

•late Vallesian or Turolian, i.e., MN 10 through MN 13

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; conglomerate

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 77781: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.01.2008

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