Where: Pakistan (26.1° N, 67.8° E: paleocoordinates 14.6° N, 64.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kirthar Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Kirthar Fm, which gradationally overlies the Tiyon Fm (Ypresian) and is conformably overlain by the Nari Fm (Oligocene-Early Miocene). THICKNESS: 190 ft thick in total. AGE: A Late Eocene age is assigned here. Blanford (1876) and Noetling (1905) assigned a Middle Eocene age, Williams (1959), Hunting Survey Corporation (1960) and Iqbal (1960) suggested a Middle Eocene-Oligocene age. Iqbal (1973) suggests that the age is late Middle Eocene to Early Miocene age. A Late Eocene age is assigned by the enterer on the basis of this evidence, and to avoid overlap with the overlying Nari Fm. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, white, yellow, blue 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 77396: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.01.2008

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