Where: India (34.2° N, 74.8° E: paleocoordinates 7.2° N, 69.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Ranikot Group, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

• Shale unit (65 ft thick), at base of 365 ft thick section, underlying limestone, and overlying unfossiliferous sandstones and shales of the Lower Ranikot Series. This is the lowermost Upper Ranikot, and conformably overlies the Lower Ranikot Series, and is unconformably overlain by the Laki Series. The upper 300 ft of this section (including the collection) correspond to Vredenburg's Zone 1. Evidence for the lower Eocene age assignment is not presented, but the enterer suspects a microfaunal basis. Unit numbering is of the enterer's iniative and is numbered from bottom to top, each unit representing each of the author's lithological subdivisions.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, ferruginous, gypsiferous, red, sandy shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Observations assumed to be undertaken by the author. No collections reported.

Primary reference: D.F.C. Nuttall. 1932. The stratigraphy of the upper Ranikot Series (Lower Eocene) of Sind, India. Records of the Geological Society of India 35:306-313 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 42879: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 06.08.2004

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