Bhogna Dad (Eocene of Pakistan)

Also known as Ro5

Where: Punjab, Pakistan (30.8° N, 70.4° E: paleocoordinates 16.5° N, 66.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Drazinda Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• lower part of the middle Drazinda Formation below Discocyclina sowerby marker bed.

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

• brown shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Anwar, M. in 1996

Primary reference: C. E. Schweitzer, R. M. Feldmann, and P. D. Gingerich. 2004. New Decapoda (Crustacea) from the middle and late Eocene of Pakistan and a revision of Lobonotus A. Milne Edwards, 1864. University of Michigan Contributions from the Musuem of Paleontology 31(4):89-118 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167716: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 29.03.2015, edited by Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Carpiliidae
Proxicarpilius planifrons Collins and Morris 1978 crab
Reptilia
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle
GSP-UM 3184