Where: Somalia (10.5° N, 50.7° E: paleocoordinates 10.1° N, 49.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gargorre Formation (Hafún Group), Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• Bed C, in upper middle of section

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, white limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Facca & Marchesini in 1938-1939

• COLLECTOR: Collected by G. Facca and E. Marchesini, 1938-1939. REPOSITORY: Museo dell' Istituto Geologico dell' Universitá di Firenze.

Primary reference: A. Azzaroli. 1958. L'Oligocene e il Miocene della Somalia. Stratigrafia, Tettonica, Paleontologia (Macroforaminferi, Coralli, Molluschi). Palaeontolographia Italica 52:1-142 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123802: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.01.2012

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