Markini Mudstone (Pasni Section): Middle Miocene - Late/Upper Miocene, Pakistan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777
Gastropoda - Adeorbidae
Adeorbidae indet. Monterosato 1884
Adeorbid
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Turridae indet. Swainson 1840
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
? Rapana sp. Schumacher 1817
Gastropoda - Vanikoridae
Vanikoro cf. cancellata Lamarck 1822
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana sp. Link 1807
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
? Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799
Bivalvia - Solemyida - Solemyidae
Solemya sp. Children 1823
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Amusium sp. (Röding 1798)
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Barbatia sp. Gray 1842
Anadara informal sp. A Gray 1847
Anadara granosa (Linnaeus 1758)
recombined as Anadara (Tegillarca) granosa
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellinidae indet. Blainville 1814
small tellins
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
? Timoclea sp. Brown 1827
Dosinia sp. Scopoli 1777
Pitar sp. Römer 1857
Macrocallista informal sp. A Meek 1876
Pitaria sp. Roemer 1857
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Mactrinula cf. plicataria
Mactrinula sp. Gray 1853
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789
Bivalvia - Poromyida - Verticordiidae
Verticordiidae indet. Stoliczka 1871
see common names

Geography
Country:Pakistan
Coordinates: 25.5° North, 63.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.9° North, 61.4° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Key time interval:Middle Miocene - Late/Upper Miocene
Age range of interval:15.98000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Parkini Mudstone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,green unlithified mudstone
Environment:deep subtidal shelf
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collection method comments: 35 combined samples.... section in text breaks up in to some subsamples, but not all and the taxonomic list in the back of the paper is the most comprehensive.
Metadata
Database number:55397
Authorizer:M. Kosnik Enterer:M. Kosnik
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-10-17 22:01:52 Last modified:2005-10-18 01:01:52
Access level:the public Released:2005-10-17 22:01:51
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

14901.1% 9720J. A. Crame. 1984. Neogene and Quaternary Mollusca from the Makran Coast, Pakistan. In B. U. Haq, J. D. Milliman (eds.), Marine geology and oceanography of Arabian Sea and Coastal Pakistan 45-61 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/P. Wagner]