Where: Pakistan (30.0° N, 70.1° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 8.4° N, 71.6° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pir Koh Formation, Lutetian (48.1 - 41.0 Ma)
• White Marl Band (local zone 11). Now assigned to the Pir Koh Formation, which contains foraminfera of zone P12 (Warraich & Nishi, 2003).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified marl
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collected by F.E. Eames; reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: F. E. Eames. 1952. A contribution to the study of the Eocene in Western Pakistan and Western India: C. The description of the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda from standard sections in the Rakhi Nala and Zindar Pir areas of the Western Punjab and in the Kohat District. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B 236:1-168 [L. Ivany/L. Ivany/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 184033: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.01.2017
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Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Galeodea aegyptiaca Oppenheim 1906 snail | |
Conus (Lithoconus) colossus n. sp.
Conus (Lithoconus) colossus n. sp. Eames 1952 cone shell |