Maliri, Sind, Pakistan (Eocene of Pakistan)

Also known as Reef 3170

Where: Sind, Pakistan (26.0° N, 67.8° E: paleocoordinates 12.8° N, 62.8° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Khirtar Group, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• Age assignment based on stratigraphic correlation with NE India: Jauhri, A.K., and Agarwal, K.K., 2001, Early Palaeogene in the south Shillong Plateau, NE India: local biostratigraphic signals of global tectonic and oceanic changes: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 168, p. 187-203.

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm

• Unclear if real reef

Primary reference: P. M. Duncan. 1880. Sind fossil corals and Alcyonaria. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Palaeontologica Indica, Ser. 7 and 14 1(1):1-110 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 11290: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 02.08.2001

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
listed as Isastrea n. sp. irregularis
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Hydnophora maliriensis n. sp. stony coral
Caulastrea indica2 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
? Montlivaltia indica n. sp. stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia maliriensis n. sp. stony coral
Favia pedunculata n. sp. stony coral
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Leptocyathus epithecata n. sp. stony coral
Trochocyathus nummuliticus n. sp. stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
"Stylina" tertiaria1 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
"Latomeandra" sp.2 Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
Originally assigned to Latimaeandra
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Cyathoseris mirabilis n. sp. stony coral
Originally assigned to Pterastraea
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites indica n. sp. stony coral
Porites pellegrinii stony coral
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Astrocoenia numisma Defrance 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
 Scleractinia - Plesiastreidae
Plesiastrea eocenica n. sp. stony coral