Nari beds - NE of Quetta, Baluchistan: Early Oligocene, Pakistan
collected by Vredenburg

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Vredenburg 1928
Vredenburg 1928
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Vredenburg 1928
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Vredenburg 1928
Vredenburg 1928
Vredenburg 1928
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Vredenburg 1928
Vredenburg 1928
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten (Amussiopecten) labadyei (d'Archaic and Haime 1853)
Vredenburg 1928
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Vredenburg 1928
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Vredenburg 1928
Vredenburg 1928
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Trochus (Tectus) lucasianus (Brongniart 1823)
Vredenburg 1928
Gastropoda - Rostellariidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae
Turbinella episoma (Michelotti 1861)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Lyria anceps (Michelotti 1861)
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella strangulata Grateloup 1847
Vredenburg 1928
see common names

Geography
Country:Pakistan
Coordinates: 30.2° North, 67.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:25.4° North, 67.0° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Oligocene
Stage: Rupelian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 4
Key time interval: Early Oligocene
Age range of interval: 33.9 - 27.3 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Nari
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Basal beds of regional succession, and is overlain by the Gaj beds (Early Miocene). AGE: Early Oligocene, based on similarity with European faunas of Lattofian and Stampian age. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within unit.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown, but presumably siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Poorly-lithified, based on figured specimens.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Not stated in text, but presumably shallow shelf siliciclastic.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Vredenburg
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Multiple collectors including W. Blanford, Wynne, Hira Lal, Ram Singh, and Noetling (staff of Geological Survey of India) during the early 1900's. REPOSITORY: Geological Survey of India, with voucher specimens possibly at the BMNH.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia, and scaphopoda. NOMENCLATURE: Antiquated, but from an authoritative publication, with use of species and subgenus resolution assignments. Nomenclature can be updated through reference to Harzhauser and Swarko publications.
Metadata
Database number:77157
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-12-21 15:29:45 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2008-12-21 15:29:45
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
26063. 1925E. Vredenburg. 1925. Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of north-western India: Cephalopoda, Opisthobranchiata, Siphonostomata. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 50(1):1-350 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

26112 E. Vredenburg. 1928. Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of north-western India: Gastropoda (in part) and Lamellibranchiata. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 50(2):351-506 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]