Where: Pakistan (30.4° N, 70.5° E: paleocoordinates 5.0° N, 64.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ghazij Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• Ghazij Shales (local subzone 3b)
• 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 183817: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.01.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium soriense n. sp.
Dentalium soriense n. sp. Eames 1952 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella (Stiracolpus) harnaiensis, Mesalia (Sigmesalia) soriensis n. sp., "Mesalia (Sigmesalia) fasciata" = Sigmesalia fasciata
Turritella (Stiracolpus) harnaiensis Cox 1931 turret shell
Mesalia (Sigmesalia) soriensis n. sp. Eames 1952 turret shell
"Mesalia (Sigmesalia) fasciata" = Sigmesalia fasciata Lamarck 1804 turret shell | |
Chondrocerithium pakistanicum n. sp. Eames 1952 cerith snail | |
Rissoa pakistanica Eames 1952 snail | |
Ringicula punjabensis n. sp.
Ringicula punjabensis n. sp. Eames 1952 snail | |
? Acteon "sp. A" Montfort 1810 snail | |
Cylichna (Acrostemma) punjabensis n. sp. Eames 1952 snail |