Where: Pakistan (30.0° N, 70.1° E: paleocoordinates 11.5° N, 65.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Baska Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• Shales with Alabaster (local zone 6). Shales with Alabaster now assigned to Baska Formation. This part of the section is barren of planktonic forams, but occurs between beds belonging to zone P10 and overlying P12 beds, indicating Lutetian age.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
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 183828: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.01.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Pakistania antirotata n. gen. n. sp.
Pakistania antirotata n. gen. n. sp. Eames 1952 snail |