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
Latlng 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

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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

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

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"

Metadata
Sample no: 4519

Contributor no: 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
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
8 species
0 singleton
total count 624
geometric series index: 8.8
Fisher's α: 1.294
geometric series k: 0.5233
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.4276
Shannon's H: 0.9733
Good's u: 1
Register
†Damalops palaeindicus 465
†Hemibos triqueticornis 20
†Equus sivalensis (horse)63
†Rhinoceros sivalensis (rhinoceros)34
Gazella sp. 26
Suidae indet.5
†Pachycrocuta brevirostris (hyena)7
Felidae indet.4
medium-sized