Fossil Bed F.2519, Zinda Pir: Bartonian, Pakistan
collected by F.E. Eames

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae
Globularia pseudolatispira Eames 1952
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella (Haustator) imbricataria (Lamarck 1804)
1 specimen
recombined as Haustator imbricataria
Turritella (Stiracolpus) pakistanica n. sp. Eames 1952
6 specimens
Gastropoda - Epitoniidae
Acrilla (Ferminoscala) pakistanica Eames 1952
1 specimen
Cirsotrema diversiformis n. sp. Eames 1952
16 specimens
Acrilla (? Undiscala) soriensis n. sp. Eames 1952
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Triphoridae
Triphora (Eocautor) soriensis n. sp. Eames 1952
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Ancilla (Sparella) rakhiensis Eames 1952
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
? Muricopsis bulbosinucleus n. sp. Eames 1952
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Marginella (Prunum) soriensis n. sp. Eames 1952
2 specimens
Marginella (Prunum) pseudoorientalis Eames 1952
1 specimen
Marginella (Serrata) pakistanica Eames 1952
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
? Coptostoma rakhiense Eames 1952
2 specimens
? Coptostoma punjabense Eames 1952
2 specimens
"Cancellaria" soriensis n. sp. Eames 1952
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Turris (Gemmula) pakistanica n. sp. Eames 1952
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Clavatulidae
Turricula informal sp. A Schumacher 1817
1 specimen
Turricula praepromensis Eames 1952
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Rostellariidae
Dientomochilus (Varicospira) pakistanicus Eames 1952
2 specimens
Dientomochilus (Varicospira) tenuiincisus n. sp. Eames 1952
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Euspira punjabensis Eames 1952
6 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia
Roxania pseudosemistriata n. sp. Eames 1952
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Retusidae
Rhizorus pakistanicus n. sp. Eames 1952
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Architectonica (Solariaxis) punjabensis Eames 1952
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
Odostomia pakistanica n. sp. Eames 1952
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
Ringicula (Ringiculella) pakistanica n. sp. Eames 1952
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Pakistan
Coordinates: 30.4° North, 70.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:16.1° North, 66.7° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Bartonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Bartonian
Age range of interval:41.20000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Drazinda
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Chocolate Clays (upper part, local zone 13). Lower half of Drazinda formation in Zinda Pir belongs to planktonic foram zone P13/P14, although the upper half is P15 (Warraich & Nishi, 2003).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Collectors:F.E. Eames
Metadata
Database number:183853
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2017-01-16 01:00:43 Last modified:2017-01-16 01:01:20
Access level:the public Released:2017-01-16 01:00:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
599. F. E. Eames. 1952. A contribution to the study of the Eocene in Western Pakistan and Western India: C. The description of the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda from standard sections in the Rakhi Nala and Zindar Pir areas of the Western Punjab and in the Kohat District. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B 236:1-168 [L. Ivany/L. Ivany/M. Clapham]