Where: Somalia (11.2° N, 49.0° E: paleocoordinates 10.5° N, 46.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dubar Formation (Guban Group), Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Dubar Fm [enterers usage] of the Guban Series [group?], and presumably regionally overlies Early Miocene strata (equivalent to the Naag Fm) and is overlain by the Late Miocene conglomerate. AGE: Early Miocene, equivalent to Burdigalian and upper Gaj according to author on the basis of larger formaniferal and molluscan biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From bed A' at base of section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, white mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTOR: G. Facca, G. Merla, 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 79081: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.02.2008

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