Also known as PDL-4, Vitakri, South Kinwa, DL-4s
Where: Balochistan, Pakistan (29.7° N, 69.4° E: paleocoordinates 13.4° S, 57.7° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Vitakri Formation (Fort Munro Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• "... found from the red, maroon and greenish grey mud/clays/paleosol zone of upper of Pab Formation, just below or on the (K-T) boundary of Mesozoic (Cretaceous) and Cenozoic (Tertiary/Paleocene)... [found] in the Central periphery of Sulaiman range..."
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; gray, green, red claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by M. S. Malkani
Primary reference: M. S. Malkani. 2003. Pakistani Titanosauria: are armoured dinosaurs?. Geological Bulletin University of Preshawar 36:85-91 [M. Carrano/S. Miller/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 79428: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Steven Miller on 07.03.2008, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Pakisaurus balochistani n. gen. n. sp.1 Malkani 2004 sauropod MSM-11-4 to 14-4, presacral vertebrae MSM-340-4, MSM-809-4, MSM-1011-4, MSM-517-4, MSM-810-4, MSM-342-4, MSM-800-4, MSM-341-4, MSM-376-4, and MSM-1011-4; mid caudal MSM-1010-4; prox and dist R femur MSM-595-4, MSM- 200-4, MSM-202-4, prox humerus, mid humerus MSM-268-4, dist humerus MSM-193-4, mid and prox femur MSM-208-4, prox humerus MSM- 201-4, pro humerus MSM-195-4, prox L fibula MSM-349-4; MSM-806-4 ilia/sacricoastal yoke frag sternal MSM-355-4, diapophysis MSM-878-4, dist radius MSM-159-4 (Fig. 3); sternal convex MSM-598-4, prox scapulae MSM-318-4, MSM-319-4, prox scapula MSM-317-4, art scapula MSM-335-4, sternal anterolateral near ridge MSM-353-4, mid scapulae MSM-267-4, MSM-198-4, art scapula MSM-678-4, ilium MSM-594-4, section scapula MSM-593-4, neural spine MSM-601-4, diapophysis, MSM-878-4 caudal prz and poz MSM-804-4, distal fibula MSM- 580-4, scapula section MSM-590-4 distal scapula with glenoid surface MSM-205-4, distal scapula with glenoid MSM-162-4, distal scapula MSM-205-4 and MSM-162-4; prox MC MSM-280-4, partial MCs MSM-350-4, MSM-970-4, L mid scapula MSM-203-4, R mid scapula MSM-198-4, L mid scapula MSM-203-4 , R mid scapula MSM-198-4; prox ulnae MSM-603-4, MSM-600-4, prox fibula MSM-384-4; one ray of prox ulna MSM-211-4, dist scapula MSM-678-4, humerus MSM-971-4 and MSM-972-4
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