Shahrig locality, Ghazij Fm, Section C, bed A (Eocene of Pakistan)
Where: Pakistan (30.2° N, 67.7° E: paleocoordinates 5.7° N, 62.0° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ghazij Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: basinal (); gray, green shale and brown, gray sandstone
• The Ghazij formation is divided locally into four lithological subdivisions: shale, sandstone, limestone, and conglomerate. These subdivisions have variable thickness (4' to 240 ). The shale is predominant, light green, gray or olive green in color, with maroon, purple and yellow colors being subordinate. The sandstone is grey or brown, mostly coarse-grained and pebbly. The brown sandy limestone is interbedded with sandstone and shale. The lenses of conglomerate, a minor constituent at most localities, become continuous and attain a thickness of 200 feet in the Sor Range. The clasts are derived from the older strata and are composed of Cretaceous chert and limestone. Thin beds and lenses of coal are also present in the formation. The coal is mostly grayish to brown, or brownish black in color and is slightly fissile. Veinlets of gypsum and partly decomposed woody material are present in the coat.
• Shale with beds of sandstone, limestone, conglomerate and coal
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: M. W. A. Iqbal. 1969. Mega-Fauna from the Ghazij Formation (Lower Eocene) Quetta Shahrig area, West Pakistan. Palaeontologia Pakistanica 5 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 145131: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 27.05.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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Bivalvia | |
Cardium suicum cockle | |
Meretrix baluchistanensis venus clam | |
Corbula (Bicorbula) subexarata d'Archaic and Haime 1854 clam | |
"Venericardia mutabilis" = Venericardia (Glyptoactis) mutabilis
"Venericardia mutabilis" = Venericardia (Glyptoactis) mutabilis d'Archaic and Haime 1954 clam left valves
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Ostrea "sp. A" Linnaeus 1758 oyster
Ostrea "sp. B" Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
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Gastropoda | |
"Volutocorbis harnaiensis" = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
"Volutocorbis harnaiensis" = Athleta (Volutocorbis) volute | |
Cerithium sharighense cerith snail
Bezanconia heroni cerith snail | |
"Pirena (Pseudobellardia) delphinus" = Faunus
"Pirena (Pseudobellardia) delphinus" = Faunus snail | |
Pyrazus khani snail |