Fossil Bed F.2369, Shekhan Nala, Kohat (Eocene of Pakistan)

Where: Pakistan (33.6° N, 71.5° E: paleocoordinates 7.6° N, 66.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Shekhan Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Lower Shekhan Limestone (local subzone 3a)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by F.E. Eames; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 184052: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 27.01.2017

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Cymbium eocenicum Cox 1931 volute