Where: Jammu, India (32.7° N, 74.9° E: paleocoordinates 31.6° N, 75.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Lower Member (Nagrota Formation), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• Two distinct faunal zones in the Nagrota formation, separated by two tuffs dated to ~2.5Ma. The turnover is from Stegodon to Elephas, etc. This list is the earlier part.
•Upper Siwaliks
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: P. K. Basu. 2004. Siwalik mammals of the Jammu Sub-Himalaya, India: an appraisal of their diversity and habitats. Quaternary International 117:105-118 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 51101: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 27.05.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse
Cormohipparion sp. Skinner and MacFadden 1977 hipparionine horse | |
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821 antelope
Gazella sp. Blaineville 1816 gazelle | |
Hexaprotodon sivalensis Falconer and Cautley 1836 pygmy hippo | |
Hippohyus sp. Falconer and Cautley 1847 pig | |
Camelus sp. Linnaeus 1758 camel | |
Anancus sp. Aymard 1855 gomphothere | |
Stegolophodon sp. Pohlig 1888 proboscidean | |
Elephas hysudriscus elephant Very high in the sequence - found just below the middle tuff. Earliest occurence of Elephas in the Indian sub-continent.
Elephas planifrons Falconer and Cautley 1846 elephant
Stegodon sp. Falconer 1857 elephant
Stegodon insignis Falconer 1857 elephant |