Dang Valley N4: Middle Miocene, Nepal

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Claridae indet.
Reptilia - Acrochordidae
Acrochordus dehmi Hoffstetter 1964
148 specimens
sample size is greater than 148 specimens
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Geochelone indet. Fitzinger 1835
1 specimen
?Hesperotestudo
Reptilia - Testudines - Geoemydidae
cf. Batagur sp. Gray 1855
2 specimens
originally entered as "cf. Batagur indet."
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychinae indet. Gray 1825
2 specimens
Mammalia - Anthracotheriidae
Hemimeryx pusillus
1 specimen
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Giraffokeryx punjabiensis Pilgrima 1910
1 specimen
Actinopteri - Anabantiformes - Channidae
Channa informal n. sp.
unnamed new species
see common names

Geography
Country:Nepal
Coordinates: 28.2° North, 82.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.4° North, 82.2° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Middle Miocene
Age range of interval:15.98000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Siwalik
Stratigraphy comments: Considered within the "Hipparion s. l." interval zone of Barry et al. (1982)
Lithology and environment
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Disassociated major elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),mechanical,field collection
Collection size:150 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Collection is larger than 150 specimens
Metadata
Database number:48680
Authorizer:J. Head Enterer:J. Head
Modifier:J. Head Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-03-27 20:33:21 Last modified:2005-03-27 23:33:22
Access level:the public Released:2005-03-27 20:33:20
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

12990. R. M. West, J. H. Hutchison, and J. Munthe. 1991. Miocene vertebrates from the Siwalik Group, Western Nepal. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 11(1):108-129 [J. Head/J. Head/J. Alroy]