Fossil Bed F.2730, Zinda Pir: Lutetian, Pakistan
collected by F.E. Eames
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Conidae
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Conus (Leptoconus) safaedensis
Eames 1952
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1 specimen | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Pakistan |
| Coordinates: | 30.4° North, 70.5° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 11.8° North, 65.8° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Lutetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Lutetian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 47.80000 - 41.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Domanda | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Lower Chocolate Clays (local zone 10). "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). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "shale" |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BMNH |
| Collectors: | F.E. Eames |
Metadata
| Database number: | 184064 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-01-28 21:03:24 | Last modified: | 2017-01-28 21:03:24 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-01-28 21:03:24 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 599. | 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] |