Where: Tanzania (5.3° S, 38.8° E: paleocoordinates 6.1° S, 36.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Pugu Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• The fossiliferous beds are yellow calcareous sandstone and sandy limestones. Nearby silty clays yield a lower Miocene age.Sandstones of Pugu Formation. These beds are mainly quartz sands nand sandstones, they are soft, richly kaolinitic and sometimes feldspathic. Occasionally they are current bedded with red and green clay partings; locally they have channel structures.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; yellow, calcareous sandstone and sandy limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Taxa mentioned informally in text from stratigraphic unit. See Reck & Dietrich (1921); Mutakyajwa (1987) and Stockley (1929) for more detail.

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 42400: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.07.2004

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