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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Cymbium eocenicum Cox 1931 volute |