Where: Somalia (8.0° N, 49.8° E: paleocoordinates 6.2° N, 45.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tavo Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; limestone
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 123805: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.01.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Anthozoa | |
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? Dendrophyllia sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral | |
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Goniopora micrantha Reuss 1869 stony coral
Porites minuta Reuss 1868 stony coral | |
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Stylophora sp. Schweigger 1819 stony coral | |
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Plesiastrea grayi Kühn 1933 stony coral | |
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Diploastrea crassolamellata Duncan 1863 stony coral | |
"Favites insignis" = Goniastrea insignis, Hydnophora affinis, "Leptoria concentrica" = Platygyra concentrica
"Favites insignis" = Goniastrea insignis Duncan 1880 stony coral
Hydnophora affinis Sismonda 1871 stony coral
"Leptoria concentrica" = Platygyra concentrica Duncan 1880 stony coral | |
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Heliastrea plana stony coral | |
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Conotrochus sp. Seguenza 1864 stony coral | |