South of Parwara village (Eocene of Pakistan)

Where: Northwest Frontier, Pakistan (31.5° N, 70.2° E: paleocoordinates 17.3° N, 66.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Drazinda Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• Kirthar Formation, lower part of Drazinda Shale (formerly Upper Chocolate Clays)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W.D. Gill, B.C.M. Butler; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: J. S. H. Collins and S. F. Morris. 1978. New Lower Tertiary Crabs from Pakistan. Palaeontology 21(4):957-981 [L. Ivany/E. Kowalski/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 202287: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 03.07.2019, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Carpiliidae
"Proxicarpilius minor n. sp." = Proxicarpilius planifrons
"Proxicarpilius minor n. sp." = Proxicarpilius planifrons Collins and Morris 1978 crab
 Decapoda - Hexapodidae
Hexapus pinfoldi n. sp. Collins and Morris 1978 crab