Where: Pakistan (33.5° N, 71.1° E: paleocoordinates 14.5° N, 67.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kohat Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• Sirki Shale/Kohat Limestone (local subzone 4d). Kohat Formation assigned to benthic zone SB-13 (and base of SB-14) by Sameeni et al., 2009 - lower Lutetian.
• 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 183923: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.01.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Tibia pseudomokattamensis n. sp.
Tibia pseudomokattamensis n. sp. Eames 1952 true conch | |
Vicetia sowerbyi Schilder 1930 cowry | |
"Gosavia humberti" = Indovoluta humberti
"Gosavia humberti" = Indovoluta humberti d'Archaic and Haime 1854 volute |