Daud Khel Local Fauna (Miocene to of Pakistan)

Where: Minanwali, Pakistan (32.9° N, 71.7° E: paleocoordinates 29.0° N, 73.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Chinji Formation (Siwalik Group), Middle Miocene to Middle Miocene (16.0 - 7.2 Ma)

• Includes localities H-GSP 17, 18, 19

•age given only as Miocene, but unambiguously Tortonian based on the faunal list (JA)

•This formation is about 11.2 to 14.2 Ma in age (Barry et al., 2002).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; silty, calcareous sandstone

• Bright red granular calclithite with silt to fine-grained sand matrix and granule clasts.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: S. T. Hussain and R. M. West. 1979. Daud Khel local fauna: a preliminary report on a Neogene vertebrate assemblage from the Trans-Indus Siwaliks, Pakistan. Milwaukee Public Museum Contributions in Biology and Geology 16(1):1-17 [W. Clyde/W. Clyde/W. Clyde]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 13489: authorized by Will Clyde, entered by John Finarelli on 03.04.2002, edited by Will Clyde and Lars van den Hoek Ostende

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• fossils found also include unidentified fish, amphibian and reptiles, and charophyte remains
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922 gomphothere
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
cf. Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Gaindatherium browni Colbert 1934 rhinoceros
Chilotherium sp. Ringström 1924 rhinoceros
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Giraffokeryx sp. Pilgrim 1910 giraffe
Giraffokeryx punjabiensis Pilgrima 1910 giraffe
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Gazella sp. Blaineville 1816 gazelle
Miotragocerus sp. Stromer 1928 antelope
 Artiodactyla - Tragulidae
Dorcatherium sp. Kaup 1839 chevrotain
Dorcatherium minus Lydekker 1876 chevrotain
 Artiodactyla -
Palaeochoerus sp. Pomel 1847 even-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Listriodon sp. von Meyer 1846 pig
Listriodon pentapotamiae Falconer 1870 pig
 Creodonta -
Dissopsalis carnifex Pilgrim 1910 creodont
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Talpidae indet.2 Fischer de Waldheim 1817 mole
dubious fragment
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Soricidae indet. Fischer 1814 shrew
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae
Erinaceidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817 hedgehog
Galerix rutlandae n. sp.2 Munthe and West 1980 hedgehog
Amphechinus kreuzae n. sp.2 Munthe and West 1980 hedgehog
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
 Rodentia - Ctenodactylidae
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Myomimus sumbalenwalicus1 Munthe 1980 dormouse
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Copemys sp. Wood 1936 mouse
Myocricetodon sp. Lavocat 1952 mouse
 Rodentia - Muridae
Muridae indet. Illiger 1811 mouse
Antemus cf. chinjiensis Jacobs 1977 mouse
Reptilia
 Squamata - Agamidae
Agamidae indet. Gray 1827 squamates
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle
 Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
Crocodylus palaeindicus Falconer 1859 crocodile
Actinopteri
 Teleostei -