Where: Pakistan (25.3° N, 62.1° E: paleocoordinates 24.3° N, 61.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Hinglaj Group, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Hinglaj Group, which unconformably overlies the Parkini Mudstone, and is unconformably overlain by the Haro Conglomerate. THICKNESS: Unknown thickness. AGE: Miocene [Late]-Pliocene, based on faunal affinity. Assigned by the enterer to an intermediate age of Pliocene, from which most macrofossils share affinity. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: A composite list for the entire group.
• group-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deltaic; unlithified, ferruginous, brown, gray, yellow, argillaceous, conglomeratic sandstone and poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, blue limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Not reported in text. REPOSITORY: Not reported in text.
Primary reference: Hunting Survey Corporation, LTD. 1961. Reconnaissance Geology of Part of West Pakistan 1-550 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 77295: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 08.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Tubothalamea | |
Triloculina trigonula Lamarck 1804 | |
Foraminifera | |
Rotalia sp. Lamarck 1804 | |
Textularia sp. Defrance 1824 | |
Globothalamea | |
Cibicides sp. Monfort 1808 | |
Gastropoda | |
Ringicula sp. Deshayes 1838 snail | |
Natica helvacea Lamarck 1822 moon snail | |
Tibia aff. insulaechorab true conch | |
Babylonia "sp. B" Schlüter 1838 true whelk | |
Gyrineum spinosum triton shell | |
"Turritella cf. angulata" = Kapalmerella ranikoti Vredenburg 1928 turret shell
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
Turritella assimilis Sowerby 1840 turret shell | |
Cerithium (Ptychocerithium) cf. pseudocorrugatum d'Orbigny 1852 cerith snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Lucina sp. Bruguière 1797 clam | |
"Cardium cf. melvilli" = Cardium (Laevicardium) melvilli
"Cardium cf. melvilli" = Cardium (Laevicardium) melvilli Newton 1905 cockle | |
Meretrix pseudoumbonella, Paphia deshayesii, Paphia sp., Paphia (Callistotapes) sp., Dosinia sp., "Antigona cf. mekranica" = Venus mekranica
Meretrix pseudoumbonella venus clam
Paphia deshayesii venus clam
Paphia sp. Röding 1798 venus clam
Paphia (Callistotapes) sp. Sacco 1900 venus clam
Dosinia sp. Scopoli 1777 venus clam
"Antigona cf. mekranica" = Venus mekranica Vredenburg 1928 venus clam | |
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam
Corbula cf. mekranica Vredenburg 1928 clam | |
Cardita sp. Bruguière 1792 clam | |
Anadara sp. Gray 1847 ark | |
Ostrea cf. sublingua, "Ostrea gryphoides" = Crassostrea gryphoides
Ostrea cf. sublingua oyster
"Ostrea gryphoides" = Crassostrea gryphoides Schlotheim 1813 oyster | |
Anomia achaeus Gray 1849 jingle | |
"Placenta iranica" = Placuna
"Placenta iranica" = Placuna scallop | |
Minnivola ishtakensis scallop | |
Polychaeta | |
Ditrupa sp. Berkeley 1835 | |
Thecostraca | |
Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778 barnacle | |
Echinoidea | |
? Orthechinus sp. Gauthier sea urchin |