Z108: Late Oligocene, Pakistan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Vertebrata indet.
Lamarck 1801
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Lindsay et al. 2005 | |||||||||
Osteichthyes
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Osteichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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Lindsay et al. 2005 | |||||||||
Mammalia
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Mammalia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Artiodactyla
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Artiodactyla indet.
Owen 1848
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Mammalia
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Ruminantia indet.
Scopoli 1777
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Mammalia
- Lophiomerycidae
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Lophiomerycidae informal n. gen.
Janis 1987
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Z 760, 761, 2277, 2278 and 2299 | ||||||||||
Nalameryx sulaimani
Métais et al. 2009
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Listed as Lophiomerycidae indet. by Barry et al. (2005) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Gelocidae
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? Gelocus gajensis
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Z 271 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Anthracotheriidae
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Microbunodon silistrense
(Pentland 1828)
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cf. Elomeryx borbonicus
Geais 1934
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Sivameryx palaeindicus
Lydekker 1883
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Rhinocerotidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Amynodontidae
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Cadurcotherium sp.
Gervais 1873
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ailuridae
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cf. Alopecocyon sp.
Camp and Vanderhoof 1940
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Ekgmowechashalidae
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Bugtilemur mathesoni
Marivaux et al. 2001
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Chapattimyidae
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Baluchimyinae indet.
Flynn et al. 1986
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"large taxon" | ||||||||||
Lindsaya derabugtiensis
Flynn et al. 1986
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Z 834-845 | ||||||||||
Baluchimys chaudryi n. sp.
Flynn and Cheema 1994
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Z 827 - type; referred speicmens: Z811-833 | ||||||||||
Lophibaluchia pilbeami
Flynn et al. 1986
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Z 846-876 | ||||||||||
Asterattus sp.
Flynn and Cheema 1994
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Asterattus longicristatus n. gen., n. sp.
Flynn and Cheema 1994
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Z 885 - holotype; referred material: Z 884 and 886 | ||||||||||
Zindapiria quadricollis n. gen., n. sp.
Flynn and Cheema 1994
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Z 901 - holotype; referred material: Z 890-919 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Diatomyidae
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Fallomus quraishyi
Marivaux and Welcomme 2003
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Flynn 2007 | |||||||||
Fallomus sp.
Flynn et al. 1986
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= Fallomus razae
Flynn et al. 1986
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Flynn 2007 | |||||||||
Fallomus ginsburgi
Marivaux and Welcomme 2003
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Flynn 2007 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
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Hodsahibia kayi n. sp.
Flynn and Cheema 1994
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Z 877 - type; referred material: Z 878 and 880-883 | ||||||||||
Downsimys margolisi
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Proboscidea
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Proboscidea indet.
Illiger 1811
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
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Elephantoidea indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Chiroptera
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Chiroptera indet.
Blumenbach 1779
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Reptilia
- Crocodylia
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Crocodylia indet.
(Owen 1842)
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Reptilia
- Ophidia
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Ophidia indet.
Latreille 1804
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Chondrichthyes
- Selachii
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Selachii indet.
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Pakistan | State/province: | Baluchistan |
Coordinates: | 30.1° North, 70.3° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 17.2° North, 72.0° East (Wright 2013) | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
Stage: | Chattian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
Key time interval: | Late Oligocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 27.82 - 23.03 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Chitarwata | Member: | Bugti | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: lower part of the Chitarwata Formation |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: Sandstone | |
Environment: | "channel" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | Z 108; Zinda Pir Dome | ||
Database number: | 179812 | ||
Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion |
Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2016-07-01 09:30:28 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-07-01 09:30:28 |
Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
59636. | L. J. Flynn and I. U. Cheema. 1994. Baluchimyine rodents from the Zinda Pir Dome, western Pakistan: systematics and biochronologic implications. National Science Museum Monographs 8:115-129 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |
Secondary references:
59701 | L. J. Flynn. 2007. Origin and Evolution of the Diatomyidae, with Clues to Paleoecology from the Fossil Record. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 39:173-181 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
59924 | E. H. Lindsay, L. J. Flynn, I. U. Cheema, J. C. Barry, K. Downing, A. R. Rajpar, and S. M. Raza. 2005. Will Downs and the Zinda Pir Dome. Palaeontologia Electronica 8(1):19A:1-18 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
59705 | G. Métais, J.-L. Welcomme, and S. Ducrocq. 2009. New lophiomerycid ruminants from the Oligocene of the Bugti Hills (Balochistan, Pakistan). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(1):231-241 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |