Where: Somalia (0.9° S, 42.2° E: paleocoordinates 0.9° S, 42.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• A transverse section of a shell and relatively numerous fragments lie at the base of the dune deposits, near the underlying erosion surface cut into the coralgal carbonates outcropping at low tide.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Matteucci. 2015. Drifted Nautilus shells from the Bajuni Islands (southern Somali coast of Indian Ocean). Journal of Mediterranean Earth Sciences 7:35-50 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 214858: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.10.2020

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