Fossil Bed F.2678, Zinda Pir (Eocene of Pakistan)

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

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Taxonomic list

Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium soriense n. sp. Eames 1952 tusk shell
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Mesalia (Sigmesalia) soriensis n. sp. Eames 1952 turret shell
"Mesalia (Sigmesalia) fasciata" = Sigmesalia fasciata Lamarck 1804 turret shell
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Chondrocerithium pakistanicum n. sp. Eames 1952 cerith snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Rissoidae
Rissoa pakistanica Eames 1952 snail
 Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
Ringicula punjabensis n. sp. Eames 1952 snail
 Heterostropha - Acteonidae
? Acteon "sp. A" Montfort 1810 snail
 Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Cylichna (Acrostemma) punjabensis n. sp. Eames 1952 snail