Where: Pakistan (33.6° N, 71.5° E: paleocoordinates 7.6° N, 66.3° 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 183842: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.01.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Pseudoceratodes kohaticus n. sp.
Pseudoceratodes kohaticus n. sp. Eames 1952 apple snail | |
"Planorbis" kohaticus n. sp.
"Planorbis" kohaticus n. sp. Eames 1952 snail | |
Aplexa kohatica Eames 1952 snail |