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 7). 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: 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 183895: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.01.2017

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