Laki Range - K18-12 (Paleocene of Pakistan)

Where: Sind, Pakistan (26.3° N, 67.8° E: paleocoordinates 11.0° S, 56.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Khadro Formation, Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• Lower part of the Khadro Formation, just above the famous Cardita beaumonti beds

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone

• Large platform of indurate sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J.-C. Rage, G. Métais, A. Bartolini, I. A. Brohi, R. A. Lashari, L. Marivaux, D. Merle and S. H. Solangi. 2014. First report of the giant snake Gigantophis (Madtsoiidae) from the Paleocene of Pakistan: Paleobiogeographic implications. Geobios 47:147-153 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 166592: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 19.02.2015, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Specimens accessioned at the Centre of Pure and Applied Geology (CPAG), University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan
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Reptilia
 Loricata -
Crocodylomorpha indet.
Crocodylomorpha indet. Hay 1930 crocodilian
"crocodile remains"
 Squamata - Madtsoiidae
Madtsoiidae indet.2
Madtsoiidae indet.2 Hoffstetter 1961 snake
One mid-trunk vertebra (CPAG-RANKT-V-1) and one posterior trunk vertebra articulated to the preceding centrum (CPAG-RANKT-V-2)
 Testudines - Bothremydidae
Sindhochelys ragei n. gen. n. sp.1
Sindhochelys ragei n. gen. n. sp.1 de Lapparent de Broin et al. 2021 sideneck turtle
"turtle remains"
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella sp.
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
"oysters"
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
? Crassatella sp.
? Crassatella sp. Lamarck 1799 clam
1de Lapparent de Broin et al. 2021; 2Rio and Mannion 2017