Lando Chur (Oligocene of Pakistan)

Also known as Bugti Hills; Chur Lando; Lundo Chur

Where: Pakistan (28.9° N, 69.1° E: paleocoordinates 19.0° N, 67.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Chitarwata Formation, Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• "Stampian"

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•Based on fauna, this is likely the Bugti member of the Chitarwata Fm. (Métais et al. 2009; Antoine et al. 2013)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• none given

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

• not the same as Montpellier Bugti Hills collections from Lundo Chur

Primary reference: J.-L. Welcomme and L. Ginsburg. 1997. Mise en évidence de l'Oligocène sur le territoire des Bugti (Balouchistan, Pakistan). Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science 325(12):999-1004 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77785: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 20.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

• revision of material described by Pilgrim (1912), who describe the following from the Dera Bugti area: Cadurcotherium indicum from "Khajuri nala" (southwest of Dera Bugti); Anthracotherium bugtiense (holotype) from "forty km north-east of Dera Bugti"; Pterodon bugtiensis (reID Hyainolouros bugtiensis) from "Kumbi" (in the Dera Bugti valley proper, to the north); and Anthracotherium silistrense (ID of Pickford 1987) from "Kumbi"

•also, Forster-Cooper (1924) described Anthracotherium ingens specimens from "Dera Bugti" variously reIDed as "probably" Megalochoerus humungous and Parabrachyodus hyopotamoides

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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Anthracotheriidae
"Anthracotherium silistrense" = Microbunodon silistrense, Anthracotherium adiposum, Anthracotherium bugtiense
"Anthracotherium silistrense" = Microbunodon silistrense Pentland 1828 anthracothere
described by Pickford (1987)
Anthracotherium adiposum anthracothere
thought by Pickford (1986) to be a hyracoid, but new anthracotheroid genus according to the authors
Anthracotherium bugtiense Pilgrim 1907 anthracothere
described by Pickford (1987)
 Perissodactyla - Paraceratheriidae
"Baluchitherium bugtiense" = Paraceratherium, Baluchitherium osborni
"Baluchitherium bugtiense" = Paraceratherium odd-toed ungulate
Baluchitherium osborni Forster-Cooper 1913 odd-toed ungulate