Where: Punjab, India (32.4° N, 75.9° E: paleocoordinates 29.5° N, 77.0° E)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Siwalik Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• early late Miocene of Middle Siwaliks
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; conglomerate
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• 500kg wet sieved using mesh sizes of 20 (841 microns), 40 (400 microns), and 60 (250 microns) American
•Standard Test Sieve Series (ASTM); specimens housed at Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG; Dehradun, India).
Primary reference: R. K. Sehgakl, A. P. Singh, N. P. Singh, C. C. Gilbert, B. A. Patel and R. Patnaik. 2023. First report of rodents from the Miocene Siwalik locality of Dunera, Pathankot District, Punjab, India. Palaeontologia Electronica 26(3:a49):1-27 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 232616: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 07.12.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
cf. Tamias urialis chipmunk | |
Sayimys sivalensis gundi | |
Democricetodon fejfari Lindsay 2017 rodent | |
Progonomys cf. hussaini mouse |