Where: Pakistan (30.4° N, 70.5° E: paleocoordinates 16.1° N, 66.7° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Drazinda Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• Upper Chocolate Clays (upper part, local zone 13). Lower half of Drazinda formation in Zinda Pir belongs to planktonic foram zone P13/P14, although the upper half is P15 (Warraich & Nishi, 2003).
• 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: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 183853: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.01.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Globularia pseudolatispira Eames 1952 snail | |
"Turritella (Haustator) imbricataria" = Haustator imbricataria, Turritella (Stiracolpus) pakistanica n. sp.
"Turritella (Haustator) imbricataria" = Haustator imbricataria Lamarck 1804 turret shell
Turritella (Stiracolpus) pakistanica n. sp. Eames 1952 turret shell | |
Acrilla (Ferminoscala) pakistanica, Cirsotrema diversiformis n. sp., Acrilla (? Undiscala) soriensis n. sp.
Acrilla (Ferminoscala) pakistanica Eames 1952 wentletrap
Cirsotrema diversiformis n. sp. Eames 1952 wentletrap
Acrilla (? Undiscala) soriensis n. sp. Eames 1952 wentletrap | |
Triphora (Eocautor) soriensis n. sp. Eames 1952 snail | |
Ancilla (Sparella) rakhiensis Eames 1952 olive snail | |
? Muricopsis bulbosinucleus n. sp.
? Muricopsis bulbosinucleus n. sp. Eames 1952 murex snail | |
Marginella (Prunum) soriensis n. sp., Marginella (Prunum) pseudoorientalis, Marginella (Serrata) pakistanica
Marginella (Prunum) soriensis n. sp. Eames 1952 margin shell
Marginella (Prunum) pseudoorientalis Eames 1952 margin shell
Marginella (Serrata) pakistanica Eames 1952 margin shell | |
? Coptostoma rakhiense Eames 1952 snail
? Coptostoma punjabense Eames 1952 snail
"Cancellaria" soriensis n. sp. Eames 1952 snail | |
Turris (Gemmula) pakistanica n. sp.
Turris (Gemmula) pakistanica n. sp. Eames 1952 turrid | |
Turricula "sp. A" Schumacher 1817 snail
Turricula praepromensis Eames 1952 snail | |
Dientomochilus (Varicospira) pakistanicus Eames 1952 snail
Dientomochilus (Varicospira) tenuiincisus n. sp. Eames 1952 snail | |
Euspira punjabensis Eames 1952 moon snail | |
Roxania pseudosemistriata n. sp.
Roxania pseudosemistriata n. sp. Eames 1952 snail | |
Rhizorus pakistanicus n. sp.
Rhizorus pakistanicus n. sp. Eames 1952 snail | |
Architectonica (Solariaxis) punjabensis Eames 1952 sundial | |
Odostomia pakistanica n. sp.
Odostomia pakistanica n. sp. Eames 1952 snail | |
Ringicula (Ringiculella) pakistanica n. sp. Eames 1952 snail |