Loc. 30, Biyo Gora section (Eocene of Somalia)

Where: Somalia (10.3° N, 45.2° E: paleocoordinates 2.8° N, 37.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the lower Daban series. AGE: Lutetian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Undifferentiated beds from 1945-2010 m in section; 279-344 m above top of Anhydrite Series.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified lithology not reported

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine. A more proximal equivalent of the normal-marine Karkar Formation, intercalated with wood-bearing sandstones.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown lithology. 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 81774: 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
Deltoidonautilus biyogorensis, Cimomia wylliei
Deltoidonautilus biyogorensis Haas and Miller 1952
Cimomia wylliei Newton 1925