Where: Somalia (7.8° N, 49.8° E: paleocoordinates 7.4° N, 48.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Gargorre or Naag Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone and marl

Size class: macrofossils

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 123803: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.01.2012

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