Where: Pakistan (23.3° N, 68.8° E: paleocoordinates 17.4° N, 67.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Gaj Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the lower Gaj beds, which regionally overlie the Nari beds (Oligocene) and are overlain by the Middle-Late Miocene Mekran beds. AGE: lower Early Miocene, based on similarity with European faunas of Aquitanian age. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: from the lower Gaj beds.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Vredenburg
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTORS: Multiple collectors including W. Blanford, Wynne, Hira Lal, Ram Singh, and Noetling (staff of Geological Survey of India) during the early 1900's. REPOSITORY: Geological Survey of India, with voucher specimens possibly at the BMNH.
Primary reference: E. Vredenburg. 1925. Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of north-western India: Cephalopoda, Opisthobranchiata, Siphonostomata. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 50(1):1-350 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 77169: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.12.2007
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Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Solarium affine" = Architectonica affinis2
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"Drillia (Crassispira) kachhensis" = Crassispira kachhensis
"Drillia (Crassispira) kachhensis" = Crassispira kachhensis Vredenburg 1925 snail | |
"Scala (Clathrus) gajensis" = Clathrus gajensis2
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Cerithium (Ptychocerithium) rude Sowerby 1840 cerith snail | |
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"Pirula kachhensis" = Ficus kachhensis
"Pirula kachhensis" = Ficus kachhensis Vredenburg 1925 fig shell | |
"Rostellaria protofusus" = Tibia protofusus
"Rostellaria protofusus" = Tibia protofusus Vredenburg 1928 true conch | |
"Lyria jugosa" = Lyria (Harpeola) jugosa, Athleta (Volutospina) dentata
"Lyria jugosa" = Lyria (Harpeola) jugosa Sowerby 1839 volute
Athleta (Volutospina) dentata Sowerby 1839 volute | |
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Melongena lainei Basterot 1825 snail | |
Hindsia granosa Sowerby 1840 true whelk | |
"Pleurotoma (Hemipleurotoma) bonneti" = Hemipleurotoma bonneti
"Pleurotoma (Hemipleurotoma) bonneti" = Hemipleurotoma bonneti Cossmann 1900 turrid | |
"Terebra (Myurella) reticulata" = Myurella reticulata
"Terebra (Myurella) reticulata" = Myurella reticulata Sowerby 1840 auger snail | |
Conus (Lithoconus) brevis Sowerby 1840 cone shell | |
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"Atys protocylindrica" = Aliculastrum protocylindrica
"Atys protocylindrica" = Aliculastrum protocylindrica Vredenburg 1925 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
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