Biyo Gora (Eocene of Somalia)

Also known as Bijo Gora River, Berbera 25 km SE of

Where: Somalia (10.3° N, 45.2° E: paleocoordinates 2.8° N, 37.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Daban Group, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• Nautilus beds; Daban series (Domning et al 2010)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite, original phosphate

Collected by W. A. Macfadyen, J. A. Hunt in 1928 - 1930

• JA: all material is apparently in the Sedgwick Museum; collection info is from Walker 1966

Primary reference: W. A. Macfayden. 1952. Note on the geology of the Daban Area and the localities of the described nautiloids. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 99:347-349 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 49873: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 29.04.2005, edited by John Alroy

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Taxonomic list

• JA: collections 49873, 51582, 81761 appear to be identical because (for example) Podocnemis somaliensis is said to be from "Lower half of the Nautilus Beds" at the "Bijo Gora River" (like 49873 and 81761, which have the same coordinate) and from the "Lower Daban Series... some 25 km. ESE of Berbera" (like 51582, which has a guesstimated coordinate); the only possible difference is that P. somaliensis has a slightly different reported coordinate of 10º22' N, 45º14' E
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unclassified
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Dictyconoides kohaticus
Mammalia
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Mammalia indet.
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758 mammal
 Sirenia - Sirenia
Sirenia indet.
Reptilia
 Testudines - Bothremydidae
Podocnemis somaliensis n. sp.
Podocnemis somaliensis n. sp. Walker 1966 sideneck turtle
Foraminifera
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
Nummulites somaliensis, Nummulites discorbinus