Bari Nadi 6 (Eocene of Pakistan)

Also known as West of Satta Post of the Border Military Police

Where: Punjab, Pakistan (30.8° N, 70.4° E: paleocoordinates 16.5° N, 66.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: P14 zone, upper middle Member (Drazinda Formation), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• green shales of the upper middle Drazinda Formation; Zone P14 (also NP 17) age after Gingerich, 2003

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; brown, red, silty shale

• Silty reddish-brown shales

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: K. D. Angielczyk and P. D. Gingerich. 1998. New specimen of cf. Asiatosuchus (Crocodyloidea) from the middle Eocene Drazinda formation of the Sulaiman Range, Punjab (Pakistan). Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 30(5):163-189 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 143377: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 23.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Crocodylia -
cf. Asiatosuchus sp.
cf. Asiatosuchus sp. Mook 1940 crocodilian
GSP-UM 3210 (skull fragments, jaw fragments, teeth, proatlas, atlas intercentrum, vertebrae, chevron, ribs, ventral ribs, pubis, and dermal osteodems, found disarticulated but in close association and undoubtedly representing the same animal; a cast is available for study in the UM collection)