Paleozoic • Ordovician–Silurian

Panjpir Formation

Early Devonian

Stratigraphic position

In the Hazara Basin column

MetamorphicLimestoneShale / mudFossils recordedConformableUnconformity

Band colour = period; texture = dominant rock type. Lines between bands mark the contact type (wavy = unconformity inferred from a missing period). True scale makes height ∝ recorded thickness; hatched = thickness not recorded. Ages approximate, for ordering.

This unit (highlighted) within its province column; faded ends continue above and below. Line style marks the contact type.

A slate-and-limestone unit above the Misri Banda Quartzite, dated by conodonts from the Ordovician to the Late Silurian.

Named after Panjpir village. Represents shallow marine to deltaic conditions during Early Devonian.

Significance. A slate-and-phyllite unit overlying the Misri Banda Quartzite (dataset Jobra Formation); its limestones carry crinoids, cephalopods and Ludlovian conodonts, and a crinoidal limestone at the top yields Late Silurian (Pridolian) conodonts, giving a Middle Ordovician(?) to Late Silurian age.

Lithology: Slate and phyllite with intercalations of limestone and quartzite, and a basal conglomerate carrying quartzite, dolomite, limestone and argillite clasts.
Thickness: 110–1,075 m
Type locality: Panjpir village, Mardan District
Environment: marine
Introduced by: Pogue and Hussain (1986)

Fossils

crinoidspelecypodscephalopodsnautiloidsconodonts

Provinces

Hazara Basin

References

Malkani, M.S. & Mahmood, Z. (2017). Stratigraphy of Pakistan. Geological Survey of Pakistan, Memoir Vol. 24.
Kazmi, A.H. & Jan, M.Q. (1997). Geology and Tectonics of Pakistan. Graphic Publishers, Karachi.

Reviewer confidence: medium

Related units

Below · older

Jobra formation

Ordovician

Above · younger

Nowshera Formation

Devonian