Where: Pakistan (33.6° N, 71.9° E: paleocoordinates 14.4° N, 68.0° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kohat Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• Upper Kohat Shales (local subzone 4a). Kohat Formation assigned to benthic zone SB-13 (and base of SB-14) by Sameeni et al., 2009 - lower Lutetian.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale
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 183864: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.01.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Mesalia (Sigmesalia) fasciata" = Sigmesalia fasciata, "Turritella (Haustator) imbricataria" = Haustator imbricataria
"Mesalia (Sigmesalia) fasciata" = Sigmesalia fasciata Lamarck 1804 turret shell
"Turritella (Haustator) imbricataria" = Haustator imbricataria Lamarck 1804 turret shell | |
Involuta daviesi Cox 1931 volute
Gosavia humberti d'Archaic and Haime 1854 volute | |
Terebellum carcassense Leymerie 1846 true conch |