Where: Pakistan (30.4° N, 70.5° E: paleocoordinates 16.1° N, 66.7° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Drazinda Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• Upper Chocolate Clays (upper part, local zone 13). Lower half of Drazinda formation in Zinda Pir belongs to planktonic foram zone P13/P14, although the upper half is P15 (Warraich & Nishi, 2003).
• 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 183862: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.01.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Motyris pseudoaralica, "Turritella (Haustator) imbricataria" = Haustator imbricataria
Motyris pseudoaralica Eames 1952 turret shell
"Turritella (Haustator) imbricataria" = Haustator imbricataria Lamarck 1804 turret shell 50+ specimens
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Euspira punjabensis Eames 1952 moon snail | |
? Coptostoma rakhiense Eames 1952 snail | |
Gosavia humberti d'Archaic and Haime 1854 volute | |
Marginella (Prunum) pseudoorientalis Eames 1952 margin shell | |
? Persicula "sp. A" Schumacher 1817 snail | |
Turbonilla (Chemnitzia) soriensis n. sp. Eames 1952 snail | |
? Cylichna "sp. A" Lovén 1846 snail |