Where: Pakistan (23.1° N, 69.1° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 13.0° N, 69.3° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Gaj Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the lower Gaj beds, which regionally overlie the Nari beds (Oligocene) and are overlain by the Middle-Late Miocene Mekran beds. AGE: lower Early Miocene, based on similarity with European faunas of Aquitanian age. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: from the lower Gaj beds.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Vredenburg
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTORS: Multiple collectors including W. Blanford, Wynne, Hira Lal, Ram Singh, and Noetling (staff of Geological Survey of India) during the early 1900's. REPOSITORY: Geological Survey of India, with voucher specimens possibly at the BMNH.
Primary reference: E. Vredenburg. 1928. Description of Mollusca from the post-Eocene Tertiary formation of north-western India: Gastropoda (in part) and Lamellibranchiata. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 50(2):351-506 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 77431: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.01.2008, edited by Venu Gopal Kella
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Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Turritella angulata" = Kapalmerella ranikoti
"Turritella angulata" = Kapalmerella ranikoti Vredenburg 1928 turret shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Dosinia (Dosinisca) vredenburgi Borkar and Kulkarni 2019 venus clam | |
"Pecten (Chlamys) senatorius" = Mimachlamys senatoria
"Pecten (Chlamys) senatorius" = Mimachlamys senatoria Gmelin 1791 scallop SUBSPECIES: Pecten (Chlamys) senatorius soomrowensis
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