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
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 77395: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Corbula (Bicorbula) subexarata d'Archaic and Haime 1854 clam | |
"Venericardia cf. mutabilis" = Venericardia (Glyptoactis) mutabilis
"Venericardia cf. mutabilis" = Venericardia (Glyptoactis) mutabilis d'Archaic and Haime 1954 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Velates perversus Gmelin 1791 snail | |
Rimella cf. prestwichi d'Archaic and Haime 1854 true conch | |
"Gosavia humberti" = Indovoluta humberti
"Gosavia humberti" = Indovoluta humberti d'Archaic and Haime 1854 volute | |
Crommium pseudowillemeti Eames 1952 moon snail
Euspira cf. punjabensis Eames 1952 moon snail | |
Turritella (Stiracolpus) cf. harnaiensis Cox 1931 turret shell |