Fossil Bed F.2518, Zinda Pir: Bartonian, Pakistan
collected by F.E. Eames
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Marginellidae
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Marginella (Prunum) unistriata
Eames 1952
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6 specimens | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Pakistan |
| Coordinates: | 30.4° North, 70.5° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 16.1° North, 66.7° 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 13). Lower half of Drazinda formation in Zinda Pir belongs to planktonic foram zone P13/P14, although the upper half 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: | 184063 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-01-27 23:35:47 | Last modified: | 2017-01-27 23:35:47 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-01-27 23:35:47 |
| 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] |