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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Conus (Leptoconus) safaedensis n. sp. Eames 1952 cone shell | |
Volutocorbis pakistanica n. sp.
Volutocorbis pakistanica n. sp. Eames 1952 volute | |
Dientomochilus (Varicospira) rakhiensis Eames 1952 snail |