Also known as Loc. 23

Where: Somalia (10.5° N, 50.7° E: paleocoordinates 10.1° N, 49.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gargorre Formation (Hafún Group), Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Gargorre Fm [enterers usage] of the Hafún Series [group?], and presumably regionally overlies the Naag Fm [enterers usage] (Early Miocene) and is overlain by the Late Miocene conglomerates. THICKNESS: Difficult to ascertain, but a bed of not great thickness. AGE: Middle Miocene, equivalent to Burdigalian-Helvetian and uppermost Gaj/lower Mekran according to author on the basis of larger formaniferal and molluscan biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From Bed G, in base of section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, fine-grained, shelly/skeletal, white marl

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collected by Facca & Marchesini in 1938-1939

• COLLECTOR: Collected by G. Facca and E. Marchesini, 1938-1939. REPOSITORY: Museo dell' Istituto Geologico dell' Universitá di Firenze.

Primary reference: A. Azzaroli. 1958. L'Oligocene e il Miocene della Somalia. Stratigrafia, Tettonica, Paleontologia (Macroforaminferi, Coralli, Molluschi). Palaeontolographia Italica 52:1-142 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 78940: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.02.2008

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