Palasava
Basic information
Sample name: Palasava
Reference: V. V. Kapur, M. Pickford, G. Chauhan, and M. G. Thakkar. 2019. A Middle Miocene (~14 Ma) vertebrate assemblage from Palasava, Rapar Taluka, Kutch (Kachchh) District, Gujarat State, western India. Historical Biology 33(5):595-615 [ER 4029]
Geography
Country: India
State: Gujarat
Coordinate: 23° 26' 18" N, 70° 59' 25" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Formation: Chhasra
Time interval: Middle Miocene
Zone: MN6
Geography comments: "along a ridge about 6 km east of the village of Palasava... Taluka Rapar, District Kutch"
"Langhian-Serravallian; ~14 ± 2 Ma" and the "assemblage likely correlates to MN6"
"Langhian-Serravallian; ~14 ± 2 Ma" and the "assemblage likely correlates to MN6"
Environment
Lithology: siliciclastic (mixed)
Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit
Habitat comments: there are "five ossiferous levels/horizons" that "consist predominantly of grey silts/clays with sand lenses with the top 0.50 m of the succession comprised of gravelly lag and coarse sandstone"
the environment as "a riverine-estuarine system(s)"
the environment as "a riverine-estuarine system(s)"
Methods
Life forms: ungulates,marine mammals
Sampling methods: quarry,screenwash
Sample size: 22 specimens
Years: 2007, 2013, 2015
Sampling comments: "specimens were recovered as surface collection and by excavating and sieving (both dry and wet screening) tons of sediment" and are now in the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences
fishes, turtles, crocodilians, and additional unidentified snake vertebrae are briefly described but not enumerated
"numerous unidentified post-cranial remains quite likely belonging to giraffids and bovids" are also present
fishes, turtles, crocodilians, and additional unidentified snake vertebrae are briefly described but not enumerated
"numerous unidentified post-cranial remains quite likely belonging to giraffids and bovids" are also present
Metadata
Sample number: 4445
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Modifier no: John Alroy
Created: 2024-11-10 12:02:07
Modified: 2024-11-10 12:10:35
Abundance distribution
10 species
4 singletons
total count 22
geometric series index: 28.4
Fisher's α: 7.076
geometric series k: 0.8056
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8312
Shannon's H: 2.0700
Good's u: 0.8340
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Register
| Schizodelphis sp. | 2 | |
| Suidae indet. | 1 | |
| †Sanitherium schlagintweiti | 2 | |
| †Sivameryx palaeindicus | 2 | |
| Tragulidae indet. | 3 | |
| †Brachypotherium perimense | 1 | |
| Rhinocerotidae indet. | 1 | |
| large: there are "several" postcrania, but only one is described and the others are incomplete | ||
| Zygolophodon sp. | 1 | |
| Gomphotherium sp. | 2 | |
| Deinotherium sindiense = †Deinotherium indicum | 7 | |