GH-40: Ypresian, Pakistan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Isectolophidae
Gandheralophus robustus n. sp. Missiaen and Gingerich 2012
GSP−UM 6768 - type
see common names

Geography
Country:Pakistan State/province:Balochistan
Coordinates: 30.4° North, 69.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:5.2° North, 63.8° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Ypresian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Ypresian
Age range of interval:56.00000 - 47.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ghazij Member:Upper
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Late early Eocene (Ypresian); upper part of the upper Ghazij Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Gandhera Quarry; GSP−UM locality GH−40
Database number:179962
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-07-05 04:18:53 Last modified:2016-07-05 04:18:53
Access level:the public Released:2016-07-05 04:18:53
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

59716. P. Missiaen and P. D. Gingerich. 2012. New early Eocene tapiromorph perissodactyls from the Ghazij Formation of Pakistan, with implications for mammalian biochronology in Asia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57(1):21-34 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]