Nuvuku camp site (Cretaceous to of Tanzania)

Where: Tanzania (9.7° S, 39.3° E: paleocoordinates 31.8° S, 18.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: "Trigonia bornhardti/Trigonia schwarzi" Member, Late/Upper Valanginian to Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 122.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: H. Löser. 2008. Early Cretaceous (Late Valanginian-Aptian) coral faunas from east Africa (Tanzania, Kenya) and revision of the Dietrich collection (Berlin, Germany). Palaeontographica Abteilung A 285:23-75 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85378: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.12.2008, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Peplosmilia fromenteli Angelis d'Ossat 1905 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Axosmiliidae