Jozaria Rest House: Lutetian, Pakistan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Anthracobunidae
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Jozaria palustris
Wells and Gingerich 1983
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1 specimen | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Pakistan | State/province: | Northwest Frontier |
| Coordinates: | 33.6° North, 71.2° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 14.6° North, 67.5° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| 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: | 47.80000 - 41.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Kuldana | Member: | Upper | ||
| Local section: | Jozaria Rest House | Local bed: | 4 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: early Lutetian (Gingerich, 2003) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray lithified marl |
| Secondary lithology: | lithified argillaceous lime mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "found in a loose block of grey marl in a gully less than a kilometer west of Jozaria rest house. The source bed is a very small lens of bone-filled argillaceous micrite in the Upper Member of the Kuldana Formation." | |
| Environment: | lagoonal |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | transgressive |
| Geology comments: Interpreted to be brackish marsh environment. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Degree of concentration: | -single event |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Articulated whole bodies: | none |
| Associated major elements: | all |
| Disassociated major elements: | none |
| Disassociated minor elements: | none |
| Fragmentation: | extreme |
| Bioerosion: | frequent |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection |
| Collection size: | 1 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 52200 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Clyde | Enterer: | W. Clyde |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-07-31 20:52:38 | Last modified: | 2010-09-13 14:35:52 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-07-31 20:52:38 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 14034. | N. A. Wells and P. D. Gingerich. 1983. Review of Eocene Anthracobunidae (Mammalia, Proboscidea) with a new genus and species, Jozaria palustris, from the Kuldana Formation of Kohat (Pakistan). Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 24(18):190-203 [W. Clyde/W. Clyde/M. Uhen] |