Where: Jammu and Kashmir, India (32.7° N, 75.2° E: paleocoordinates 29.0° N, 76.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ramnagar Member (Mansar Formation), MN 9 (11.1 - 9.7 Ma)
• "in the middle part of a well exposed red clay horizon. these sediments are likely to be about 10-11 Ma (uppermost Middle Miocene to basal Late Miocene)" = MN 9
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; red claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by S. S. Gupta
Primary reference: M. Pickford and S. S. Gupta. 2001. New specimen of Conohyus indicus (Lydekker, 1884) (Mammalia: Suidae) from the base of the Late Miocene, Jammu, India. Annales de Paléontologie 87(4):271-281 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 74566: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 14.08.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Conohyus indicus Lydekker 1884 pig |