Where: Somalia (11.0° N, 49.1° E: paleocoordinates 6.0° S, 41.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Tisje Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• upper Tisje Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified wackestone and lithified packstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: J. M. Pons, J. H. Schroeder, R. Höfling and E. Moussavian. 1992. Upper Cretaceous rudist assemblages in northern Somalia. Geologica Romana 28:219-241 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74508: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.08.2007

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