H-GSP 9210: Lutetian, Pakistan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Pakicetidae
Basilosauridae indet. Cope 1867
West 1980 1 specimen
H-GSP 58
    = Pakicetus attocki West 1980
Gingerich and Russell 1990
Mammalia - Cetacea - Ambulocetidae
West 1980 3 specimens
H-GSP 58
Mammalia - Rodentia - Chapattimyidae
Saykanomys sondaari Hussain et al. 1978
recombined as Birbalomys sondaari
Saykanomys lavocati n. sp. Hussain et al. 1978
recombined as Basalomys lavocati
Mammalia - Rodentia
Saykanomys chalchae Shevyreva 1972
synonym of Saykanomys bohlini
Mammalia - Rodentia - Yuomyidae
Petrokoslovia sp. (Shevyreva 1972)
original and current combination Petrokozlovia
see common names

Geography
Country:Pakistan State/province:Punjab
Coordinates: 33.6° North, 72.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:14.3° North, 68.3° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
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
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: uppermost Kuldana; early Lutetian (Gingerich, 2003)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:lenticular,gray lithified claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "dark-gray mottled clay lens interbedded in variegated clays just above a fresh-water limestone bed"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:many
Disassociated minor elements:many
Size sorting:well
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,chemical,sieve,field collection
Rock censused:800 kg
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Includes: H-GSP 57, H-GSP 58, H-GSP 59, H-GSP 60
Database number:49002
Authorizer:W. Clyde, M. Uhen Enterer:L. Gannon, M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-04-05 12:41:15 Last modified:2019-11-20 11:45:30
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-05 12:41:15
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
13075. S.T. Hussain, H. de Bruijn, and J.J.M. Leinders. 1978. Middle Eocene rodents from the Kala Chitta Range (Punjab, Pakistan). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlands Akademie van Wetenschappen 81:74-112 [W. Clyde/L. Gannon/L. Gannon]

Secondary references:

12003 P. D. Gingerich and D. E. Russell. 1990. Dentition of early Eocene Pakicetus (Mammalia, Cetacea) . Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 28(1):1-20 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
13077 J.L. Hartenberger. 1982. A review of the Eocene rodents of Pakistan. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 26:19-35 [W. Clyde/L. Gannon/J. Alroy]
11996 J. G. M. Thewissen, S. I. Madar, and S. T. Hussain. 1996. Ambulocetus natans, and Eocene cetacean (Mammalia) from Pakistan. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 191:1-86 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
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]
11995 E. M. Williams. 1998. Synopsis of the Earliest Cetaceans: Pakicetidae, Ambulocetidae, Remingtonocetidae, and Protocetidae. The Emergence of Whales 1-28 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]