Barbora Banda II: Lutetian, Pakistan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Angiospermae
- Rosales
- Ulmaceae
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Omomyidae
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| Russell and Gingerich 1987 | ||||||||||
| GSP-UM 212 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
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Rodentia indet.
Bowdich 1821
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Mammalia
- Diacodexeidae
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Diacodexis pakistanensis
Thewissen et al. 1983
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
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Tapiroidea indet.
Gill 1872
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Geography
| Country: | Pakistan | State/province: | Northwest Frontier |
| Coordinates: | 33.3° North, 71.2° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 11.3° North, 73.5° East (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Lutetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Lutetian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 48.07 - 41.03 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Kuldana | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "thought to be in the same deposit that yielded mammals at Barbora Banda I; the two localities are considered contemporaneous"; early Lutetian (Gingerich, 2003) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "siliciclastic" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "grit bands" | |
| Environment: | "floodplain" |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | concentrated |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
| Abundance in sediment: | common |
| Disassociated major elements: | many |
| Disassociated minor elements: | many |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UMMP |
| Collection method comments: Collections are split between Howard University, Geological Survey of Pakistan, UMMP | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 51857 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Clyde, P. Mannion | Enterer: | W. Clyde, P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-06-27 19:34:00 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-06-27 19:34:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 13803. | J. G. M. Thewissen, D. E. B. Russell, P. D. Gingerich and S. T. Hussain. 1983. A new dichobunid artiodactyl (Mammalia) from the Eocene of North-West Pakistan. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen 86(2):153-180 [W. Clyde/W. Clyde/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 59921 | D. E. Russell and P. D. Gingerich. 1987. Nouveaux primates de l’Éocène du Pakistan. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris, Série II 5:209-214 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |