Dera Bugti Level 1: MN 2, Pakistan
collected 1995, 1996
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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Crocodylus bugtiensis
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudinidae indet.
Batsch 1788
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionyx sp.
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Gomphotheriidae indet.
Hay 1922
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Mammalia
- Anthracotheriidae
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Anthracotheriidae indet.
Leidy 1869
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Pakistan | State/province: | Balochistan |
Coordinates: | 29.0° North, 69.1° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 22.6° North, 69.2° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
Key time interval: | MN 2 | ||
Age range of interval: | 22.40000 - 20.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: from an interval 1.5 m thick within section B near Kumbi, far to the west of Dera Bugti city reassigned from MN 3 to MN 2 by Antoine and Welcomme (2000) |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "cross stratification",fine sandstone |
Secondary lithology: | conglomerate |
Lithology description: fine cross-bedded sandstones and conglomerates | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | Collection dates: | 1995, 1996 |
Metadata
Also known as: | Bugti Hills | ||
Database number: | 77776 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2008-01-19 20:16:57 | Last modified: | 2008-01-25 16:22:51 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-01-19 20:16:57 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
23349. | J. -L. Welcomme, P. -O. Antoine, F. Duranthon, P. Mein, and L. Ginsburg. 1997. Nouvelles decouvertes de vertebres miocenes dans le synclina de Dera Bugti (Balouchistan, Pakistan). Comptes Rendus Academie de Science Paris. Sciences de la terr et des planetes 325:531-536 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
24366 | P.-O. Antoine and J.-L. Welcomme. 2000. A new rhinoceros from the lower Miocene of the Bugti Hills, Baluchistan, Pakistan: the earliest elasmotheriine. Palaeontology 43(5):795-816 [B. Beatty/B. Beatty/J. Alroy] | |
26268 | J.-L. Welcomme and L. Ginsburg. 1997. Mise en évidence de l'Oligocène sur le territoire des Bugti (Balouchistan, Pakistan). Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science 325(12):999-1004 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |