Also known as Ro3
Where: Punjab, Pakistan (30.8° N, 70.4° E: paleocoordinates 16.5° N, 66.7° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: P14 foram zone, upper middle Member (Drazinda Formation), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• upper middle Drazinda Formation; P14 (also NP 17) age after Gingerich 2003
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; green claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Collection methods: surface (float),
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 11596: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.08.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Portunus sp. Weber 1795 swimming crab | |
Mammalia | |
"Basilosaurus drazindai n. sp." = Eocetus drazindai
"Basilosaurus drazindai n. sp." = Eocetus drazindai Gingerich et al. 1997 whale |