Also known as Bugti Hills; DB2 level
Where: Balochistan, Pakistan (29.0° N, 69.2° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 16.3° N, 70.7° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bugti Member (Chitarwata Formation), Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
• from the "second ferruginous crust" in the member, called "DB2" in this area and "DB J1" to the south; "late Oligocene"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; lithified, ferruginous claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: material is in the collection of the Institut des Sciences d l'Evolution, Université de Montpellier II
Primary reference: G. Métais, P.-O. Antoine, S. R. H. Baqri, M. Benammi, J.-Y. Crochet, D. Franceschi, L. Marivaux and J.-L. Welcomme. 2006. New remains of the enigmatic cetartiodactyl Bugtitherium grandincisivum Pilgrim, 1908, from the upper Oligocene of the Bugti Hills (Balochistan, Pakistan). Naturwissenschaften 93(7):348-355 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 78423: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 06.02.2008, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Bugtitherium grandincisivum Pilgrim 1908 anthracothere | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Carcharhinus balochensis n. sp. requiem shark
? Rhizoprionodon sp. Whitley 1929 sharpnose shark | |
Cretolamna twiggensis mackerel shark | |
Nebrius obliquum nurse shark | |
Myliobatis sp. Cuvier 1816 eagle ray |