Gopnath Village, South (Pleistocene to of India)

Where: Gujarat, India (21.2° N, 72.1° E: paleocoordinates 21.2° N, 72.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Miliolite Formation, Middle Pleistocene to Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)

• Although direct dating of the Gopnath sediments and fauna has not yielded viable ages, the site is very likely late Pleistocene in age due to (1) the extreme scarcity of surficial deposits predating the last interglacial (i.e., 125 ka) in the regional record (Chamyal et al., 2003; Mathur, 2005); (2) the high stratigraphic position of the fossiliferous deposits at Gopnath within the Miliolite Formation; and (3) the presence of a hemionine ass in the Gopnath assemblage (Costa, 2012).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: interdune; lithified carbonate

• A vast expanse of carbonate aeolianite is exposed as a wave-cut cliff up to 40 m in height in the southeastern corner of Saurashtra. The formation comprises parabolic dunes with slightly convex-up cross-bedding and overlapping horns oriented transversely to southwesterly Indian Monsoon winds

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. S. Vrba, F. Bibi, and A. G. Costa. 2015. First Asian Record of a late Pleistocene reduncine (Artiodactyla, Bovidae, Reduncini), Sivacobus sankaliai, sp. nov., from Gopnath (Miliolite Formation) Gujarat, India, and a revision of the Asian genus Sivacobus Pilgrim, 1939. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(4) [M. Uhen/M. Bean/M. Bean]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 173345: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Meredith Bean on 17.09.2015

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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Sivacobus sankaliai n. sp.
Sivacobus sankaliai n. sp. Vrba et al. 2015 antelope