Fossil Bed F.2239, Panoba, Kohat: Ypresian, Pakistan
collected by F.E. Eames

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Planorbidae
24 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Physidae
25 specimens
Gastropoda - Ampullariidae
7 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Pakistan
Coordinates: 33.6° North, 71.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:5.2° North, 73.4° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
Stage: Ypresian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2
Key time interval: Ypresian
Age range of interval: 56 - 48.07 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kuldana
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Lower Chharat (Planorbis Bed, local zone ?). Occurs between Shekhan Limestone and Kohat Formation, presumably in what is now called Kuldana Formation, assigned to Ypresian by Mirza (2014).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:lacustrine 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:183841
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:freshwater
Created:2017-01-16 00:15:21 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2017-01-16 00:15:21
Creative Commons license:CC0
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]