Safed Tobah (Eocene of Pakistan)

Where: Pakistan (29.4° N, 70.0° E: paleocoordinates 12.8° N, 65.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Khirthar Formation), Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)

• lower Khirthar, undoubtedly the equivalent, at any rate in part, of the Planorbis Freshwater Beds of the Lower Chharats of the Kala Chitta Range

•Middle Eocene based on biostratigraphy (Afzal et al. 1997)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; blue shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: G.E. Pilgrim. 1940. Middle Eocene Mammals from North-west India. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, Series B 110:127-152 [W. Clyde/W. Clyde/W. Clyde]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 93752: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 01.02.2010

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Acreodi - Mesonychidae
Mesonychidae indet. Cope 1875 condylarth
 Artiodactyla - Anthracotheriidae
Anthracotheriidae indet. Leidy 1869 anthracothere
Reptilia
 Testudines -
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian