Where: Gujarat, India (21.6° N, 72.4° E: paleocoordinates 19.0° N, 72.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Piram Conglomerate Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• conglomerate beds, middle Siwaliks; Dhok Pathan fauna, Pontian; Sahni & Mitra (1980) state that these deposits are Zanclean in age, but Nanda et al. (2018) date it to the Late Miocene
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, ferruginous conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: K. N. Prasad. 1974. The vertebrate fauna from Piram Island, Gujarat, India. Palaeontologia Indica 41:1-21 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 87489: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.03.2009, edited by Evangelos Vlachos and Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Gnathostomata | |
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| Chondrichthyes | |
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Myliobatis sp. Cuvier 1816 eagle ray | |
"Aetobatis sp." = Aetobatus4
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Scoliodon sp. Muller and Henle 1837 requiem shark
"Prionodon sp." = Prionace Cantor 1849 blue shark
Aprionodon sp. Gill 1861 requiem shark | |
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Stegolophodon cautleyi proboscidean | |
"Stegolophodon latidens" = Mastodon (Tetralophodon) latidens
"Stegolophodon latidens" = Mastodon (Tetralophodon) latidens Clift 1829 mastodon | |
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Anancus perimensis Falconer and Cautley 1847 gomphothere | |
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Aceratherium perimense Falconer and Cautley 1847 rhinoceros | |
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Dorcatherium minus Lydekker 1876 chevrotain | |
Pachyportax nagrii, Tragoportax sp., Tragocerus perimensis, "Antilope planicornis" = Nisidorcas planicornis, Selenoportax vexillarius, Ruticeros compressa n. sp.
Pachyportax nagrii antelope
Tragoportax sp. Pilgrim 1937 antelope
Tragocerus perimensis antelope
"Antilope planicornis" = Nisidorcas planicornis Pilgrim 1939 antelope
Selenoportax vexillarius Pilgrim 1937 antelope
Ruticeros compressa n. sp. Prasad 1974 antelope | |
| Reptilia | |
"Crocodilus palaeindicus" = Crocodylus, "Crocodilus sp." = Crocodylus
"Crocodilus palaeindicus" = Crocodylus crocodile
"Crocodilus sp." = Crocodylus Laurenti 1768 crocodile | |
Piramys auffenbergi n. sp.
Piramys auffenbergi n. sp. Prasad 1974 sideneck turtle | |
"Colossochelys atlas" = Megalochelys sivalensis
"Colossochelys atlas" = Megalochelys sivalensis Falconer and Cautley 1837 turtle | |
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Lyssemys piramensis n. sp. Prasad 1974 turtle
Emyda vittata3 Peters 1854 turtle BMNH R.221, stated as being from the "Pliocene Siwaliks of Perim Island [assumed sp.], Gulf of Cambay, India", skull
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