Fossil Bed F.2680, Zinda Pir: Ypresian, Pakistan
collected by F.E. Eames

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Chondrocerithium pakistanicum Eames 1952
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella (Stiracolpus) harnaiensis (Cox 1931)
10 specimens
10+ specimens
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Euspira soriensis Eames 1952
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassaria punjabensis n. sp. Eames 1952
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
Ringicula punjabensis Eames 1952
6 specimens
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium soriense Eames 1952
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Pakistan
Coordinates: 30.4° North, 70.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:5.0° North, 64.3° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Ypresian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
*Period:Early/Lower Tertiary - Middle Tertiary
Key time interval:Ypresian
Age range of interval:56.00000 - 47.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ghazij
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Ghazij Shales (local subzone 3a)
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
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:BMNH
Collectors:F.E. Eames
Metadata
Database number:8675
Authorizer:L. Ivany, M. Clapham Enterer:E. Kowalski, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-08-23 11:04:06 Last modified:2017-01-15 23:13:13
Access level:the public Released:2000-08-23 11:04:06
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]

Secondary references:

598 F. E. Eames. 1952. A contribution to the study of the Eocene in Western Pakistan and Western India: D. Discussion of the faunas of certain standard sections, and their bearing on the classification and correlation of the Eocene in Western Pakistan and Western India. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 107:173-200 [L. Ivany/E. Kowalski]