Also known as Otavi Mountains

Where: Namibia (19.5° S, 18.3° E: paleocoordinates 19.9° S, 17.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MN 9 (11.1 - 9.7 Ma)

• "lower part of upper Miocene (lower Vallesian of Europe)" =

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; breccia

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: bone collector

Collection methods: quarrying, acetic

• "fossils were retrieved... by etching with dilute acetic acid"

•material is in the Geological Museum of Namibia

Primary reference: D. T. Rasmussen, M. Pickford, P. Mein, B. Senut, and G. C. Conroy. 1996. Earliest known procaviid hyracoid from the late Miocene of Namibia. Journal of Mammalogy 77(3):745-754 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87787: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 24.03.2009

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