Ganda Kas: Lutetian, Pakistan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Pakicetidae
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Pakicetus attocki
(West 1980)
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Thewissen and Hussain 1998 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
Ichthyolestes pinfoldi n. gen., n. sp.
Dehm and Oettingen-Spielberg 1958
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Mammalia
- Raoellidae
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Khirtharia dayi
Pilgrim 1940
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Haqueina haquei n. gen., n. sp.
Dehm and Oettingen-Spielberg 1958
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synonym of Indohyus indirae | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Dichobunidae
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? Promioclaenus gandaensis n. sp.
Dehm and Oettingen-Spielberg 1958
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recombined as Dulcidon gandaensis | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Anthracobunidae
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Pilgrimella gilgrimi n. gen., n. sp.
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Pilgrimella n. gen. wardi
(Pilgrim 1940)
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original and current combination Anthracobune wardi | ||||||||||
? Anthracobune daviesi
Pilgrim 1940
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= Lammidhania n. gen. wardi
Pilgrim 1940
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Gingerich 1977 | |||||||||
original and current combination Anthracobune wardi | ||||||||||
Anthracobune pinfoldi
Pilgrim 1940
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Obergfellia occidentalis
Cooper et al. 2014
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Cooper et al. 2014 | |||||||||
H-GSP 538 and 568 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Helaletidae
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Helaletidae indet.
Osborn 1892
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Tapiridae
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? Teleolophus daviesi n. sp.
Dehm and Oettingen-Spielberg 1958
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Brontotheriidae
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? Eotitanops dayi n. sp.
Dehm and Oettingen-Spielberg 1958
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Mammalia
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Basalina basalensis n. gen., n. sp.
Dehm and Oettingen-Spielberg 1958
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Taeniodonta indet.
(Cope 1876)
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Planorbidae
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Planorbis sp.
Muller 1774
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Gingerich 1977 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Pakistan | State/province: | Punjab |
Coordinates: | 33.8° North, 72.7° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 14.3° North, 68.7° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||
Geographic resolution: | basin |
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 | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: one specimen of Gandakasia is purportedly from the Kohat Formation, which overlies the Kuldana (Gingerich, 1977); early Lutetian (Gingerich, 2003) |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | mudstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Disassociated major elements: | some |
Disassociated minor elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collection method comments: IPHG, Institute für Paläontologie und Historische Geologie, Munich, Germany |
Metadata
Also known as: | includes Gingerich (1977) localities 2 & 11 | ||
Database number: | 45529 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Uhen, P. Mannion |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | marine invertebrate,vertebrate |
Created: | 2004-10-29 12:58:46 | Last modified: | 2010-09-13 14:33:04 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-10-29 12:58:46 |
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] | |
12007 | P. D. Gingerich. 1977. A small collection of fossil vertebrates from the middle Eocene Kuldana and Kohat Formations of Punjab (Pakistan). Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 24(18):190-203 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
15283 | P. D. Gingerich. 2003. Stratigraphic and micropaleontological constraints on the Middle Eocene age of the mammal-bearing Kuldana Formation of Pakistan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(3):643-651 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
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] | |
11799 | J. G. M. Thewissen, E. M. Williams, and S.T. Hussain. 2001. Eocene mammal faunas from northern Indo-Pakistan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(2):347-366 [W. Clyde/L. Gannon/J. Alroy] | |
12020 | R. M. West. 1980. Middle Eocene large mammal assemblage with Tethyan affinities, Ganda Kas region, Pakistan. Journal of Paleontology 54(3):508-533 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |