Bari Nadi 4: Bartonian, Pakistan
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Protocetidae
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Basilosaurus drazindai n. sp.
Gingerich et al. 1997
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| recombined as Eocetus drazindai | |||||||
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Portunidae
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Portunus sp.
Weber 1795
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Schweitzer et al. 2004 | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Pakistan | State/province: | Punjab |
| Coordinates: | 30.8° North, 70.4° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 16.5° North, 66.7° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Bartonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
| *Period: | Early/Lower Tertiary | *Epoch: | Middle Eocene |
| *International age/stage: | Late/Upper Bartonian | ||
| Key time interval: | Bartonian | Foram zone: | P14 |
| Age range of interval: | 41.20000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Drazinda | Member: | upper middle | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: upper middle Drazinda Formation; P14 (also NP 17) age after Gingerich 2003 | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | green claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | offshore shelf |
| Geology comments: shallow shelf | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Disassociated major elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Ro3 | ||
| Database number: | 11596 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2001-08-22 13:29:19 | Last modified: | 2019-07-03 15:24:10 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-08-22 13:29:19 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 6010. | 5% 980 | P. D. Gingerich, M. Arif, M. A. Bhatti, M. Anwar, and W. J. Sanders. 1997. Basilosaurus drazindai and Basiloterus hussaini, new archaeoceti (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Middle Eocene Drazinda Formation, with a revised interpretation of ages of whale-bearing strata in the Kirthar Group of the Sulaiman Range, Punjab (Pakistan). Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 30(2):55-81 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 7939 | P. D. Gingerich, M. Arif, and W. C. Clyde. 1995. New archaeocetes (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Middle Eocene Domanda Formation of the Sulaiman Range, Punjab (Pakistan). Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 29(11):291-330 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 12078 | 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] |