Also known as Sperrgebiet
Where: Karas, Namibia (27.0° S, 15.3° E: paleocoordinates 27.9° S, 12.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in the 1990s, 2000s
Primary reference: J. Morales, M. Pickford, and M. J. Salesa. 2008. Creodonta and Carnivora from the Early Miocene of the Northern Sperrgebiet, Namibia. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Namibia 20:291-310 [R. Butler/R. Butler]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 175698: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 31.12.2015, edited by Evangelos Vlachos and Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Afrosmilus africanus Andrews 1914 false sabre-tooth FS 35’93, fragment of mandíble with p/2, fragment of p/3 and anterior part of p/4; FS 30’01, associated fragments of right mandibular symphysis, right p/2, left p/3, right p/4 and anterior part of left p/4
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