South of Nila Kund (Eocene of Pakistan)

Where: Pakistan (29.3° N, 69.5° E: paleocoordinates 4.3° N, 63.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified shale and limestone

• shales, with subordinate beds of sandstones, limestones, conglomerates and thin coals.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E.S. Pinfold; 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 7731: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 31.05.2000

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Raninidae
"Laeviranina sinuosa n. sp." = Raninoides sinuosus
"Laeviranina sinuosa n. sp." = Raninoides sinuosus Collins and Morris 1978 crab
 Decapoda - Inachoididae
Pyromaia inflata n. sp. Collins and Morris 1978 spider crab
 Decapoda - Tumidocarcinidae
Lobonotus orientalis n. sp. Collins and Morris 1978 crab