Loc. 204, Daurarin section (Eocene of Somalia)

Where: Somalia (10.2° N, 46.6° E: paleocoordinates 2.7° N, 39.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Karkar Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Karkar series. AGE: Lutetian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 141-161 m below top of Karkar Series; 67-87 m from top of Anhydrite Series.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine. Sedimentology and ostracod faunas suggest infralittoral/epineritic, occasionally hypersaline, environment.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown lithology. Formation composed of interbedded marls and shelly calcarenites. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Macfadyen & Hunt in 1933

• COLLECTOR: W. A. Macfadyen and J. A, Hunt (1933). REPOSITORY: Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge

Primary reference: O. Haas and A. K. Miller. 1952. Eocene Nautiloids of British Somaliland. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 99(5):319-354 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 81754: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 15.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to nautiloids. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with fairly modern nomenclature.
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Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Hercoglossidae
Cimomia karkarensis
Cimomia karkarensis Haas and Miller 1952
Sedgk Mus. C.12090