Bed C - Gargorre, loc. 23: Middle Miocene, Somalia
collected by Facca & Marchesini 1938-1939

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Poritidae
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Heliastraeidae
Heliastrea defrancei (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Dendracis bifaria Gregory 1930
see common names

Geography
Country:Somalia
Coordinates: 10.5° North, 50.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:6.8° North, 50.2° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Middle Miocene
Age range of interval: 15.98 - 11.63 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Hafún Formation:Gargorre
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Bed C, in upper middle of section
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal,white lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Calcari bianchi
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Facca & Marchesini Collection dates:1938-1939
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Collected by G. Facca and E. Marchesini, 1938-1939. REPOSITORY: Museo dell' Istituto Geologico dell' Universitá di Firenze.
Metadata
Database number:123802
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-01-30 21:50:33 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2013-01-30 21:50:33
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
26500. 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]