Where: Libya (28.3° N, 18.5° E: paleocoordinates 21.5° N, 14.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Al Gata Member (Wadi Thamit Formation), Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• Wadi Thamit Group- Al Gata and T'med al k'sour Chalks

•Wadi Thamit identified as a formation by Domning et al 2017

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collected by R.J.G. Savage in 1964; reposited in the BMNH

• Collected by 1964 Bristol University Expedition (additional specimens in Department of Geology, Bristol University)

Primary reference: G. J. Heal. 1973. Contributions to the Study of Sirenian Evolution. 1-245 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49943: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.05.2005, edited by Matthew Clapham

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