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 183818: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.01.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Liotia (? Liotina) "sp. A"" = Liotina
"Liotia (? Liotina) "sp. A"" = Liotina Fischer 1885 snail | |
"Mesalia (Sigmesalia) fasciata" = Sigmesalia fasciata
"Mesalia (Sigmesalia) fasciata" = Sigmesalia fasciata Lamarck 1804 turret shell | |
Chondrocerithium pakistanicum Eames 1952 cerith snail | |
Rissoa pakistanica n. sp.
Rissoa pakistanica n. sp. Eames 1952 snail | |
Odostomia (Megastomia) infrasubcarinata Eames 1952 snail | |
Ringicula punjabensis Eames 1952 snail | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium soriense Eames 1952 tusk shell |