East of Safaed, south of Tobah Kund, Dera Ismail Khan District (Eocene of Pakistan)

Where: Pakistan (29.5° N, 70.0° E: paleocoordinates 11.1° N, 65.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Domanda Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• Lower Chocolate Clays. "Lower Chocolate Clays" now assigned to Domanda Formation (or Sirki Member of Kirthar Fm in other scheme). Upper part contains P12 planktonic foraminifera at Rakhi Nala (and P12 forams found throughout the formation elsewhere)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

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 183936: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.01.2017

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus (Leptoconus) safaedensis n. sp. Eames 1952 cone shell
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Volutocorbis pakistanica n. sp. Eames 1952 volute
 Sorbeoconcha - Rostellariidae