Where: Somalia (11.3° N, 49.3° E: paleocoordinates 10.6° N, 46.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Dubar Formation (Guban Group), Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Dubar Fm [enterers usage] of the Guban Series [group?], and presumably regionally overlies Early Miocene strata (equivalent to the Naag Fm) and is overlain by the Late Miocene conglomerate. AGE: Early Miocene, equivalent to Burdigalian and upper Gaj according to author on the basis of larger formaniferal and molluscan biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, fine-grained sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: G. Facca, G. Merla, 1938-1939. REPOSITORY: Museo dell' Istituto Geologico dell' Universitá di Firenze.
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 79097: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.02.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Stylophora conferta Reuss 1868 stony coral | |
Gastropoda | |
"Conus antiquus" = Lithoconus antiquus
"Conus antiquus" = Lithoconus antiquus Lamarck 1810 cone shell | |
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Ostrea folium" = Dendostrea folium, Ostrea sp.
"Ostrea folium" = Dendostrea folium Linnaeus 1758 foliate oyster
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop |