Where: Pakistan (30.4° N, 70.5° E: paleocoordinates 5.0° N, 64.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ghazij Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• Ghazij Shales (local subzone 3a)
• 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: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 8675: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 23.08.2000, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium soriense Eames 1952 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
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Chondrocerithium pakistanicum Eames 1952 cerith snail | |
Euspira soriensis Eames 1952 moon snail | |
Nassaria punjabensis n. sp.
Nassaria punjabensis n. sp. Eames 1952 snail | |
Ringicula punjabensis Eames 1952 snail |