Pabbi Hills (Locality 642)
Basic information
Sample name: Pabbi Hills (Locality 642)
Reference: R. W. Dennell, R. Cord, M. Beech, M. Anwar, and A. Turner. 2005. Locality 642, an Upper Siwalik (Pinjor Stage) fossil accumulation in the Pabbi Hills, Pakistan. Journal of The Palaeontological Society of India 50(1):83-92 [ER 4095]
Geography
Country: Pakistan
State: Punjab
Coordinate: 32.87° N, 73.89° E
Coordinate basis: estimated from map
Scale: outcrop
Time interval: Early Pleistocene
Max Ma: 1.4
Min Ma: 1.2
Age basis: other
Geography comments: "near the village of Baroth" (apparently Bharoot: coordinate estimated using Fig. 2)
"dated to ca. 1.2-1.4 Ma old" but no details are given
"dated to ca. 1.2-1.4 Ma old" but no details are given
Environment
Lithology: siltstone
Taphonomic context: overbank deposit
Habitat comments: "a very large concentration of fossils eroding from yellowish-brown silts the now form the top of a low hill immediately in front of Sandstone 12... The fossils accumluated on a land surface characterized by flash-flood conditions where pulses of sand were deposited... The immediate environment of the site was probably a loop in a braided channel system where the banks of the stream were breached... Some bovid limb-bone elements were still articulated... fewer than 10% of the specimens showed unequivocal carnivore damage"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,ungulates
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 624 specimens
Years: 1989, 1990
Sampling comments: "discovered in 1989 during survey" and there were further collections the next year
"All fossil material... was collected from the surface" but two specific areas were "excavated"
"All fossil material... was collected from the surface" but two specific areas were "excavated"
Metadata
Sample number: 4519
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Modifier no: John Alroy
Created: 2024-11-25 09:54:20
Modified: 2024-11-25 10:03:13
Abundance distribution
8 species
0 singletons
total count 624
geometric series index: 8.8
Fisher's α: 1.294
geometric series k: 0.5069
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.4276
Shannon's H: 0.9733
Good's u: 1.0000
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| †Damalops palaeindicus | 465 | |
| †Hemibos triqueticornis | 20 | |
| †Equus sivalensis | 63 | |
| †Rhinoceros sivalensis | 34 | |
| Gazella sp. | 26 | |
| Suidae indet. | 5 | |
| †Pachycrocuta brevirostris | 7 | |
| Felidae indet. | 4 | |
| medium-sized | ||