Loc. 16 (Laki Formation) (Eocene of Pakistan)

Where: Pakistan (25.3° N, 67.9° E: paleocoordinates 1.2° N, 60.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Laki Formation, Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Laki Fm, which unconformably overlies the Upper Ranikot Fm (Late Paleocene) and is conformably overlain by the Tiyon Fm (Ypresian). THICKNESS: 695 ft thick in total. AGE: Early Eocene age, on the basis of macrofauna by Cox (1931), Iqbal (1969, 1973). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, concretionary, shelly/skeletal, gray, white, yellow limestone

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine environment; carbonate facies.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Limestone with subordinate shale. marl, and laterite. The limestone is chalky white to light cream, light grey, hard, compact, thin-bedded at the base, nodular and marly and fossiliferous at the top. LITHIFICATION: Poorly-lithified on the basis of facies description.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Iqbal in 1966, 1972

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Iqbal (1966, 1972). REPOSITPRY: Geological Survey of Pakistan, Quetta.

Primary reference: M. W. A. Iqbal. 1973. Biostratigraphy of the Tiyon Formation (Middle Eocene) of Sind, Pakistan. Records of the Geological Survey of Pakistan 22:1-40 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77380: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda and bivalvia. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, though with subgenus and species-level assignments.
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Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Pseudomiltha cf. gigantea
Pseudomiltha cf. gigantea Deshayes 1825 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Trachycardium cotteri
Trachycardium cotteri Cox 1931 cockle
Gastropoda
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
Velates perversus
Velates perversus Gmelin 1791 snail
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Gosavia humberti
Gosavia humberti d'Archaic and Haime 1854 volute