Dunera (Miocene of India)

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

• from 0.5 meter thick pseudoconglomerate

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

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
 Rodentia - Ctenodactylidae
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Democricetodon fejfari Lindsay 2017 rodent
 Rodentia - Muridae