Ganda Kas Locality 24: Lutetian, Pakistan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Pakicetidae
Ichthyolestes pinfoldi Dehm and Oettingen-Spielberg 1958
Thewissen and Hussain 1998 1 specimen
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Anthracobunidae
Anthracobune wardi Pilgrim 1940
Cooper et al. 2014
IPHG 1956 II 22 and 23
Pilgrimella pilgrimi Dehm and Oettingen-Spielberg 1958
Cooper et al. 2014
synonym of Anthracobune pinfoldi
IPHG 1956 II 20
see common names

Geography
Country:Pakistan
Coordinates: 33.8° North, 72.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:14.3° North, 68.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Lutetian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Lutetian
Age range of interval:47.80000 - 41.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kuldana
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: redbeds of the lower Kuldana Formation; early Lutetian age after Gingerich (2003)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Lithology description: red beds
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:45587
Authorizer:M. Uhen, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Uhen, P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-11-16 06:17:01 Last modified:2016-07-28 10:07:19
Access level:the public Released:2004-11-16 06:17:01
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11944. R. Dehm and T. Oettingen-Spielberg. 1958. Paläontologische und geologische Untersuchungen im Tertiär von Pakistan. Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathewmatisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 91:1-54 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/S. Bruning]

Secondary references:

53438 L. N. Cooper, E. R. Seiffert, M. Clementz, S. I. Madar, S. Bajpai, S. T. Hussain, and J. G. M. Thewissen. 2014. Anthracobunids from the Middle Eocene of India and Pakistan are stem perissodactyls. PLoS ONE 9(10):e109232:1-15 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Mannion]
11990 J. G. M. Thewissen and S. T. Hussain. 1998. Systematic review of the Pakicetidae, early and middle Eocene Cetacea (Mammalia) from Pakistan and India. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 34:220-238 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
11995 E. M. Williams. 1998. Synopsis of the Earliest Cetaceans: Pakicetidae, Ambulocetidae, Remingtonocetidae, and Protocetidae. The Emergence of Whales 1-28 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]