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 79096: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.02.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Somalidacna lamellosa" = Crassostrea gryphoides
"Somalidacna lamellosa" = Crassostrea gryphoides Schlotheim 1813 oyster | |
Dosinia sp. Scopoli 1777 venus clam | |
Anthozoa | |
Septastrea papyracea stony coral | |
"Hydnophora regularis" = Hydnophora rudis
"Hydnophora regularis" = Hydnophora rudis Duncan 1864 stony coral |