Where: Pakistan (25.7° N, 68.2° E: paleocoordinates 4.8° S, 58.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• Following Frederiksen (1994) who studied angiosperm pollen, the age of the Bara Formation is not younger than early Selandian, but according to Wakefield & Monteil (2002), the top of the Bara Formation could be late Thanetian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, recrystallized, replaced with calcite

Collected by Merle and Pacaud

• Repository at Centre for Pure and Applied Geology, University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan

Primary reference: D. Merle, J. Pacaud, G. Metais, A. Bartolini, R. A. Lashari, I. Brohi, S. H. Solangi, L. Marivaux, and J.-L. Welcomme. 2014. Volutidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of the Lakhra Formation (Earliest Eocene, Sindh, Pakistan): systematics, biostratigraphy and paleobiogeography. Zootaxa 3826(1):101-138 [M. Clapham/V. Maciel/O. Alfaro]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 184084: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Vanessa Maciel on 30.01.2017

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