Fossil Bed F.2239, Panoba, Kohat (Eocene of Pakistan)

Where: Pakistan (33.6° N, 71.9° E: paleocoordinates 7.5° N, 66.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kuldana Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Lower Chharat (Planorbis Bed, local zone ?). Occurs between Shekhan Limestone and Kohat Formation, presumably in what is now called Kuldana Formation, assigned to Ypresian by Mirza (2014).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified limestone

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 183841: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.01.2017

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullariidae
Pseudoceratodes kohaticus Eames 1952 apple snail
 Heterostropha - Planorbidae
"Planorbis" kohaticus Eames 1952 snail
 Heterostropha - Physidae
Aplexa kohatica n. sp. Eames 1952 snail