Darwaza-Gumbrak, DL-8 (Nahar Kot) (Cretaceous of Pakistan)

Also known as Nala, PDL-8, Darwaza Gambrak

Where: Balochistan, Pakistan (29.8° N, 69.5° E: paleocoordinates 13.4° S, 57.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• 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

• "The upper part of Pab Formation seems to be a continental fluviatile fresh water deposition in the Central periphery of Sulaiman range..."
• "... 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)."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. S. Malkani

Primary reference: M. S. Malkani. 2006. Biodiversity of saurischian dinosaurs from the latest Cretaceous Park of Pakistan. Journal of Applied and Emerging Sciences 1(3):108-140 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79668: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.03.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Saurischia - Balochisauridae
Marisaurus jeffi
Marisaurus jeffi Malkani 2004 sauropod
MSM-40-8
 Saurischia - Pakisauridae
Pakisaurus balochistani1
Pakisaurus balochistani1 Malkani 2004 sauropod
MSM-134-8; glenoid scapula MSM-742-8
 Saurischia - Gspsauridae
Saraikimasoom vitakri2, Gspsaurus pakistani3
Saraikimasoom vitakri2 Malkani 2014 sauropod
Gspsaurus pakistani3 Malkani 2014 sauropod
1Malkani 2009; 2Malkani 2019; 3Malkani 2019