Pliocene Ceylon Collection: Early Pleistocene, Sri Lanka
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Rhinoceros sivalensis
Falconer and Cautley 1847
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Mammalia
- Hippopotamidae
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Hexaprotodon sivalensis
Falconer and Cautley 1836
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Palaeoloxodon namadicus
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Palaeoloxodon sp.
Matsumoto 1924
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Geography
| Country: | Sri Lanka | State/province: | Sabaragamuva |
| Coordinates: | 8.3° North, 79.8° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 7.5° North, 79.5° East |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Early/Lower Quaternary | *Epoch: | Early/Lower Pleistocene |
| Key time interval: | Early Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58 - 0.774 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: Upper Siwalik coralate on Ceylon |
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 14150 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Clyde | Enterer: | J. Finarelli |
| Modifier: | L. Gannon | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-05-16 11:59:31 | Last modified: | 2004-06-16 14:08:34 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-05-16 11:59:31 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 6256. | 5% 48800 | P.E.P. Deraniyagala. 1937. Some Miocene and upper Siwalik [lower Pleistocene] vertebrates from Ceylon. Spolia zeylanica 20:191-198 [W. Clyde/J. Finarelli/J. Alroy] |