Where: Somalia (10.4° N, 45.2° E: paleocoordinates 0.4° N, 37.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Allahkajid Member (Auradu Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Allahkajid beds of the Auradu series. AGE: upper Ypresian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 2610-2687 m in section; 312-389 m above base of Eocene.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal wackestone

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 81764: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 15.07.2008, edited by John Alroy

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