Dunghan Fm, Darazinda Village (Paleocene to of Pakistan)

Where: Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan (31.7° N, 70.2° E: paleocoordinates 4.2° N, 64.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: CP 6-8 nannofossil zone, Thanetian to Thanetian (59.2 - 47.8 Ma)

• Foram zone P4-P6a

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: Repository: British Petroleum

Primary reference: R. W. Jones. 1997. Aspects of the Cenozoic stratigraphy of the Northern Sulaiman Ranges, Pakistan. Micropaleontology 16:51-58 [M. Clapham/K. Hassell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 214820: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Keenan Hassell on 16.10.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Florideophyceae
  - Corallinophycidae
Amphiroa sp. Lamoroux 1812
Distichoplax biserialis Dieterich 1927
Archaeolithothamnium sp. Rothpletz 1891
Mesophyllum sp. Lemoine 1930
Lithothamnion sp. Heydrich 1897
Foraminifera
 Orbitolinacea - Orbitolinidae
 Globigerinoidea - Globorotaliidae
Globorotalia sp. Cushman 1927
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales -
Dasycladales "indet." Kützing 1860