Shuwaihat site S4 (Miocene of the United Arab Emirates)

Where: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (24.1° N, 52.4° E: paleocoordinates 22.5° N, 51.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Baynunah Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; poorly lithified, ferruginous, red sandstone and carbonaceous conglomerate

• poorly consolidated sands, horizontally bedded, mainly reddish-brown in color with both sets and cosets present...thin laterallly discontinuous conglomerate, (the petrology of the conglomerate clasts is similar to that of the sands that are mature and polycyclic with sub-angular quartz, feldspars, tourmaline and micas rarely cemented with carbonate).

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Lapparent de Broin and Van Dijk credit Whybrow with first description of site, but it's not name in that reference

Primary reference: P. J. Whybrow. 1989. New Stratotype: the Baynunah Formation (Late Miocene), United Arab Emirates: Lithology and palaeontology. Newsletter on Stratigraphy 21(1):1-9 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28278: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 03.02.2003

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionyx sp.
Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle
 Testudines - Geoemydidae
Mauremys sp.
Mauremys sp. Gray 1870 pond turtle
 Testudines - Testudinidae
cf. Geochelone aff. sulcata
cf. Geochelone aff. sulcata Miller 1779 African spurred tortoise