Fossil Bed F.2758, Rakhi Nala: Bartonian, Pakistan
collected by F.E. Eames
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda
- Dentaliida
- Dentaliidae
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Dentalium (Laevidentalium) rakhiense
Eames 1952
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1 specimen | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Pakistan |
Coordinates: | 30.0° North, 70.1° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 15.8° North, 66.2° East |
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Stage: | Bartonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
Key time interval: | Bartonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 41.20000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Drazinda | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Chocolate Clays (upper part, local zone 14). Most of Drazinda formation in Rakhi Nala belongs to planktonic foram zone P14, although the uppermost part (roughly the Pellatispira beds) is P15 (Warraich & Nishi, 2003). |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified "shale" |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | BMNH |
Collectors: | F.E. Eames |
Metadata
Database number: | 183823 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2017-01-15 23:02:15 | Last modified: | 2017-01-16 01:17:58 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-01-15 23:02:15 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
599. | 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] |