Fossil Bed F.2114, Sirki Paila, Kohat (Eocene of Pakistan)

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

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
Tibia pseudomokattamensis n. sp. Eames 1952 true conch
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Vicetia sowerbyi Schilder 1930 cowry
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
"Gosavia humberti" = Indovoluta humberti
"Gosavia humberti" = Indovoluta humberti d'Archaic and Haime 1854 volute