GT Carrière (Miocene of Namibia)

Also known as Grillental

Where: Sperrgebiet, Namibia (27.0° S, 15.3° E: paleocoordinates 27.9° S, 12.8° E)

When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• Dated at 20 to 19 million years (Lower Miocene) by biochronology.

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; claystone

• This site was formed in a flood-plain context, within the Proto-Kaukausib drainage in which fluvial sediments accumulated (Pickford & Senut 2000).
• The Oligocene palaeovalley was filled by Miocene sediments consisting of

•green clays overlying the basement and which are overlain by coarse-grained fluvial sands. A large deposit of travertine and aeolianites unconformably overlying the fossiliferous clays is observed in the West of Grillental (Pickford 2008).

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: L. Bento Da Costa and B. Senut. 2022. Skeleton of Early Miocene Bathyergoides neotertiarius Stromer, 1923 (Rodentia, Mammalia) from Namibia: behavioural implication. Geodiversitas 44(10):291-322more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 235619: authorized by Laura Bento Da Costa, entered by Laura Bento Da Costa on 19.07.2024

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Rodentia - Bathyergidae
Bathyergoides neotertiarius
Bathyergoides neotertiarius Stromer 1926 mole rat