Where: South Africa (34.4° S, 17.8° E: paleocoordinates 34.7° S, 16.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Middle Miocene to Middle Miocene (16.0 - 2.6 Ma)

• "the most probable age for these skulls would be middle to early late Miocene, but we cannot completely exclude older ages. Because more reduced phosphogenic phases occurred later in the Miocene and Pliocene, some specimens might even prove to be younger."

Environment/lithology: marine; phosphorite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: S. H. Haughton. 1956. Phosphatic-Glauconitic deposits off the west coast of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 42(4):329-334 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 77208: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 31.12.2007

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