Where: Pakistan (30.0° N, 70.1° E: paleocoordinates 11.5° N, 65.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Drug Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• Rubbly Limestones (local zone 6). Rubbly Limestones now assigned to Drug Formation (or upper part of Shaheet Ghat Formation in other schemes). This part of the section contains planktonic forams of upper P9 or P10 zones, indicating early Lutetian age.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: 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 183920: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.01.2017, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Pseudocuspidaria lakiensis Cox 1938 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Lambis goniophora Bellardi 1852 conch | |
Pachycrommium flemingi d'Archiac and Haime 1854 snail |