The Panoba Formation  in Kohat sub-basin of the Indus Basin, Pakistan exposes excellent early Eocene  tethyan section.  In this study a preliminary  work on the paleontology of the forty four early Eocene smaller benthic  foraminiferal species as well as their potential for paleoclimatological  research from the Panoba Formation is carried out. A systematic treatment of  the species is based on the diagnostic morphology. These  species   belongs  to  two suborders,  twenty super families,  twenty five families,  thirteen subfamilies  and   twenty seven different   genera.  Among  these foraminifera  twenty seven   species  are  agglutinated   and  seventeen are  non   agglutinated  (calcareous). The  biostratigraphic analysis of the Panoba Formation based on benthic foraminifera  suggests that the Formation was deposited in basal Ilerdian time, equivalent to  larger benthic zones SBZ 5 & 6 and planktic foraminiferal zones E1 and E2  (part). The biofacies analysis suggests that Panoba Formation was deposited in  a variety of settings ranging from middle neritic zone to upper bathyal zone  environments. The time period of deposition and wide spectrum of depositional  depth of the Panoba Formation offers potential material for future paleoclimatological  research pertaining to the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) or post PETM  scenarios.