A fossil-bearing locality near Padhri village, Dhok Pathan, 55 km away from the tehsil Dina, Jhelum District, in the Potwar Plateau, Middle Siwaliks, Punjab, northern Pakistan, is significantly rich in mammalian fossils. This site has provided an abundant mammalian fossil fauna of Late Miocene age from the Dhok Pathan Formation (Fm.). The recovered material belongs to four families: Equidae (horses), Rhinocerotidae (rhinos), Bovidae (cows), and Suidae (pigs). We discovered a new skull of hipparionine Hipparion theobaldi from this locality along with 22 specimens from the associated assemblage of fossil mammals. The recovered material includes seven other species: the aceratheriine Chilotherium intermedium, boselaphines Tragoportax punjabicus, Selenoportax vexillarius, Pachyportax latidens, the antelope Gazella lydekkeri and suinine Propotamochoerus hysudricus. The specimens are isolated teeth, fragments of maxilla, mandibles and horn cores. The Dhok Pathan Fm. is generally composed of claystone, siltstone and sandstone beds and, based on the mammalian fauna, the Padhri fossil locality is dated as Late Miocene. Thi99s formation was deposited in a subtropical paleoenvironment and the predominance of fossil bovids indicates extremely moist conditions with small but frequent standing water bodies.

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巴基斯坦旁遮普省杰赫勒姆区帕德里晚中新世三头马头骨和相关哺乳动物化石组合的新发现

位于巴基斯坦北部旁遮普省中西瓦利克斯的 Potwar 高原，距杰赫勒姆区 tehsil Dina 55 公里的 Dhok Pathan 帕德里村附近的一个化石产地，哺乳动物化石非常丰富。该遗址提供了来自 Dhok Pathan 组（Fm.）的丰富的晚中新世哺乳动物化石群。回收的材料属于四个科：马科（马）、犀科（犀牛）、牛科（牛）和猪科（猪）。我们在该地区发现了一个新的 hipparionine theobaldi头骨以及来自相关化石哺乳动物组合的 22 个标本。回收的材料包括其他七种：aceratherine Chilotherium intermedium、boselaphinesTragoportax punjabicus、Selenoportax vexillarius、Pachyportax latidens、羚羊Gazella lydekkeri和 suinine Propotamochoerus hysudricus。标本是孤立的牙齿、上颌骨、下颌骨和角核的碎片。Dhok Pathan Fm。一般由粘土岩、粉砂岩和砂岩层组成，根据哺乳动物群，Padhri 化石产地的年代为晚中新世。Thi99s地层沉积在亚热带古环境中，化石牛科动物的优势表明极端潮湿的条件，小但频繁的静止水体。