Where: Pakistan (30.4° N, 70.5° E: paleocoordinates 5.0° N, 64.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ghazij Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Ghazij Shales (local subzone 3a)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

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: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8675: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 23.08.2000, edited by Matthew Clapham

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