Fossil Bed F.2520, Zinda Pir: Bartonian, Pakistan
collected by F.E. Eames

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella (Haustator) imbricataria (Lamarck 1804)
50 specimens
recombined as Haustator imbricataria
50+ specimens
Motyris pseudoaralica Eames 1952
36 specimens
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Euspira punjabensis Eames 1952
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Gosavia humberti (d'Archaic and Haime 1854)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cystiscidae
? Persicula informal sp. A Schumacher 1817
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Marginella (Prunum) pseudoorientalis Eames 1952
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
? Coptostoma rakhiense Eames 1952
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
? Cylichna informal sp. A Lovén 1846
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
Turbonilla (Chemnitzia) soriensis n. sp. Eames 1952
1 specimen
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:183862
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2017-01-16 22:13:39 Last modified:2017-01-16 22:13:39
Access level:the public Released:2017-01-16 22:13:39
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]