Where: Dhofar, Oman (17.0° N, 54.0° E: paleocoordinates 10.1° N, 47.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Shizar Member (Ashawq Formation), Early/Lower Oligocene (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• near the base of the Shizar Member of the Ashawq Formation; earliest Oligocene

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 2010

Primary reference: E. R. Seiffert, S. Nasir, A. Al-Harthy, J. R. Groenke, B. P. Kraatz, N. J. Stevens, and A. R. Al-Sayigh. 2012. Diversity in the later Paleogene proboscidean radiation: a small barytheriid from the Oligocene of Dhofar Governorate, Sultanate of Oman. Naturwissenschaften 99:133-141 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179726: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 28.06.2016, edited by Pauline Coster

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