Dang Valley N8: Middle Miocene, Nepal

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Claridae indet.
Protragoceras gluten
1 specimen
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Brachypotherium perimense
12 specimens
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Deinotherium pentapotamiae (Falconer and Lydekker 1876)
1 specimen
original and current combination Dinotherium pentapotamiae
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Chitra cf. indica Gray 1831
1 specimen
Lissemys punctata Bonnaterre 1789
3 specimens
Trionychinae indet. Gray 1825
6 specimens
Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae
Batagurinae informal form A
3 specimens
Batagurinae informal form B
1 specimen
? Kachuga indet. Gray 1869
1 specimen
Reptilia - Testudines - Geoemydidae
cf. Batagur sp. Gray 1855
12 specimens
originally entered as "cf. Batagur indet."
Reptilia - Acrochordidae
Acrochordus dehmi Hoffstetter 1964
37 specimens
sample is greater than 37 specimens
Reptilia
Gavialis sp. Oppel 1811
10 specimens
sample is greater than 10 specimens
cf. Tomistoma indet. Müller 1846
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:88 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Collection is larger than 88 specimens
Metadata
Database number:48681
Authorizer:J. Head Enterer:J. Head
Modifier:J. Head Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-03-27 20:48:34 Last modified:2005-03-27 23:48:35
Access level:the public Released:2005-03-27 20:48:33
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]