Mikindani Formation, Tanga-Pangani, Tanzania - Schluter (1997) (Pliocene of Tanzania)

Where: Tanzania (10.0° S, 39.7° E: paleocoordinates 10.2° S, 39.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Mikindani Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• Pliocene strata. The Mikindani Formation is essentially fluviatile, and is by no means certainly correlatable across Tanzania. The layers include sandy clays, marls, marly limestone and sands, both macrofaunas and microfaunas are richly developed.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, sandy claystone and shelly/skeletal marl

• The period was one of major regression in relation to earlier times.
• Sandy clays, marls, marly limestone and sands, both macrofaunas and microfaunas are richly developed.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Taxa mentioned informally in text from stratigraphic unit. No further literature cited.

Primary reference: T. Schluter. 1997. Geology of East Africa 1-484 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 42453: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 29.07.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Probably not exhaustive.
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Lopha tridacnaeformis oyster
Listed as Ostrea (Lopha) tridacnaeformis, but for consistency I have entered Lopha as genus. This is keeping with nomenclature used elsewhere in book
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pecten vasseli Fuchs 1878 scallop
Amusium pleuronectes Linnaeus 1758 scallop