Where: Tanzania (6.2° S, 39.2° E: paleocoordinates 7.0° S, 37.0° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Masingini Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• Miocene strata. Based primarily on the basis of foraminifera (listed). Macrofossils hint at a Pliocene age. Original age determinations such as Stockley (1928) were Pliocene.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; argillaceous sandstone and shelly/skeletal limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: original calcite
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Taxa mentioned informally in text from stratigraphic unit. Further data provided in Stockley (1928).
Primary reference: T. Schluter. 1997. Geology of East Africa 1-484 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 42455: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 29.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Chlamys werthi scallop | |
Globothalamea | |
Miogypsina sp. Sacco 1893 | |
Foraminifera | |
Heterostegina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
Operculinella sp. Yabe 1918 | |