Where: Pakistan (30.0° N, 70.1° E: paleocoordinates 15.8° N, 66.2° 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). Most of Drazinda formation in Rakhi Nala belongs to planktonic foram zone P14, although the uppermost part 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 8676: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 23.08.2000, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Trochus" "sp. A" Linnaeus 1758 top snail | |
Circulus rakhiensis n. sp.
Circulus rakhiensis n. sp. Eames 1952 snail | |
Euspira punjabensis Eames 1952 moon snail | |
Triphora rakhiensis n. sp.
Triphora rakhiensis n. sp. Eames 1952 snail | |
Rissoina rakhiensis n. sp.
Rissoina rakhiensis n. sp. Eames 1952 snail | |
Ancilla (Sparella) rakhiensis n. sp. Eames 1952 olive snail | |
Nassaria "sp. A" Link 1807 snail
Nassaria "sp. B" Link 1807 snail | |
Fusinus "sp. A" Rafinesque 1815 snail | |
Strepsidura "sp. A" Swainson 1840 true whelk | |
Pyrenomitra anachis n. gen. n. sp.
Pyrenomitra anachis n. gen. n. sp. Eames 1952 mitre shell | |
? Coptostoma punjabense Eames 1952 snail | |
Marginella (Serrata) pakistanica n. sp., Marginella (Prunum) unistriata n. sp., Marginella (Prunum) pseudoorientalis, Marginella (Nudifaba) rakhiensis n. sp.
Marginella (Serrata) pakistanica n. sp. Eames 1952 margin shell
Marginella (Prunum) unistriata n. sp. Eames 1952 margin shell
Marginella (Prunum) pseudoorientalis Eames 1952 margin shell
Marginella (Nudifaba) rakhiensis n. sp. Eames 1952 margin shell | |
Turricula "sp. A" Schumacher 1817 snail
Turricula praepromensis n. sp. Eames 1952 snail | |
Turricula (Pleurofusia) obliquinodosa n. sp., Turricula (Pleurofusia) pseudoscala n. sp., Brachytoma "sp. A"
Turricula (Pleurofusia) obliquinodosa n. sp. Eames 1952 turrid
Turricula (Pleurofusia) pseudoscala n. sp. Eames 1952 turrid
Brachytoma "sp. A" Swainson 1840 turrid | |
Dientomochilus (Varicospira) pakistanicus n. sp. Eames 1952 snail | |
Melanella (? Polygireulima) rakhiensis n. sp. Eames 1952 snail
Melanella (? Polygireulima) pakistanica n. sp. Eames 1952 snail | |
Scala (Crisposcala) rakhiensis Eames 1952 wentletrap | |
Diastoma rakhiensis n. sp.
Diastoma rakhiensis n. sp. Eames 1952 snail | |
Architectonica (Solariaxis) punjabensis Eames 1952 sundial | |
Retusa (Cylichnina) aequiattenuata n. sp., Retusa recta n. sp.
Retusa (Cylichnina) aequiattenuata n. sp. Eames 1952 snail
Retusa recta n. sp. Eames 1952 snail | |
? Roxania "sp. A" Leach In Gray 1847 snail | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium (Laevidentalium) rakhiense n. sp. Eames 1952 tusk shell
Dentalium (Laevidentalium) pseudorakhiense n. sp. Eames 1952 tusk shell |