Where: Tanzania (9.6° S, 39.5° E: paleocoordinates 32.4° S, 19.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: "Trigonia bornhardti/Trigonia schwarzi" Member, Early/Lower Aptian (121.4 - 122.5 Ma)

• probably from the Early Aptian "Niongala Member" of the Late Valanginian-Early Aptian "Trigonia bornhardti/Trigonia schwarzi Beds"

• 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 85359: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.12.2008, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

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