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 183820: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.01.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
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Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium (Laevidentalium) rakhiense Eames 1952 tusk shell |