Dunghan Fm, Darazinda Village: Thanetian - Ypresian, Pakistan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Orbitolinidae
Dictyoconus sp.
Globorotaliidae
Globorotalia sp. Cushman 1927
Florideophyceae - Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Distichoplax biserialis (Dieterich 1927)
Archaeolithothamnium sp. Rothpletz 1891
Amphiroa sp. Lamoroux 1812
Florideophyceae - Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
Mesophyllum sp. Lemoine 1930
Lithothamnion sp. Heydrich 1897
Chlorophyceae - Dasycladales
Dasycladales informal indet. Kützing 1860
see common names

Geography
Country:Pakistan State/province:Dera Ismail Khan County:Darazinda
Coordinates: 31.7° North, 70.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.2° North, 64.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Paleocene - Eocene
Stage: Thanetian - Ypresian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 1 - Cenozoic 2
Key time interval: Thanetian - Ypresian Nannofossil zone:  CP 6-8
Age range of interval: 59.2 - 47.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Foram zone P4-P6a
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: British Petroleum
Metadata
Database number:214820
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:K. Hassell
Research group:micropaleontology
Created:2020-10-16 19:17:01 Last modified:2020-10-16 19:17:01
Access level:the public Released:2020-10-16 19:17:01
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
74117. R. W. Jones. 1997. Aspects of the Cenozoic stratigraphy of the Northern Sulaiman Ranges, Pakistan. Micropaleontology 16:51-58 [M. Clapham/K. Hassell]