Bed P - Wadi Trudi [Buran Gp]: Late Eocene, Somalia
collected by Azzaroli 1956
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Orbitolinidae
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| Country: | Somalia |
| Coordinates: |
9.6° North, 50.8° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 1.0° South, 49.2° East (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
| Period: | Paleogene |
Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Priabonian |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
| Key time interval: | Late Eocene |
| Age range of interval: | 37.71 - 33.9 m.y. ago |
| Geological group: | Buran |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
| Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Lithostratigraphy is somewhat unclear, but Late Eocene beds appear to correlate with, or be included within, the Buran Group. The Gheldei Formation [enterers usage] of the Hafún Series [group?] of Early Oligocene age presumably regionally overlies the Late Eocene strata. THICKNESS: Difficult to ascertain, but a bed of not great thickness. AGE: Late Eocene, according to author on the basis of larger formaniferal biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From near base of section. |
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal lithified "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Calcari organogeno e saccaroidi, alternanti. LITHIFICATION: Lithified on the basis of figured specimens from adjacent beds. |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
| Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Shallow subtidal carbonate environment. |
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collectors: | Azzaroli |
Collection dates: | 1956 |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Presumably A. Azzaroli, 1956. REPOSITORY: Museo dell' Istituto Geologico dell' Universitá di Firenze. |
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Not exhaustive, but limited to characteristic gastropoda, bivalvia, foraminifera, and anthozoa. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, but with antiquated nomenclature/ |
| Database number: | 78815 |
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy |
Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy |
Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-02-18 08:53:45 |
Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | authorizer only |
Released: | 2009-02-18 08:53:45 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
| 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] |