Where: Pakistan (29.4° N, 70.0° E: paleocoordinates 12.8° N, 65.3° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Khirthar Formation), Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)
• lower Khirthar, undoubtedly the equivalent, at any rate in part, of the Planorbis Freshwater Beds of the Lower Chharats of the Kala Chitta Range
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•Middle Eocene based on biostratigraphy (Afzal et al. 1997)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; blue shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: G.E. Pilgrim. 1940. Middle Eocene Mammals from North-west India. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, Series B 110:127-152 [W. Clyde/W. Clyde/W. Clyde]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 93752: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 01.02.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle | |
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian | |
Mammalia | |
Anthracotheriidae indet. Leidy 1869 anthracothere | |
Mesonychidae indet. Cope 1875 condylarth |