Where: Somalia (10.8° N, 51.1° E: paleocoordinates 10.1° N, 48.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ghibirti Formation (Hafún Group), Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Ghibirti Fm [enterers usage] of the Hafún Series [group?] of Early Miocene, and presumably regionally overlies the Tavo Fm [enterers usage] (Late Oligocene) and is overlain by the Naag Fm [enterers usage] (Early Miocene). THICKNESS: Difficult to ascertain, but a bed of not great thickness. AGE: Early Miocene, equivalent to Aquitanian and lower Gaj according to author on the basis of larger formaniferal and molluscan biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From floating specimens in section.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collected by Facca & Marchesini in 1938-1939

• COLLECTOR: Collected by G. Facca and E. Marchesini, 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 78905: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.02.2008

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