Where: Mbeya, Tanzania (8.9° S, 33.5° E: paleocoordinates 11.2° S, 30.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Nsungwe Formation (Red Sandstone Group), Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: W. N. Stevens, K. M. Claeson, and N. J. Stevens. 2016. Alestid (Characiformes: Alestidae) fishes from the late Oligocene Nsungwe Formation, Rukwa Rift Basin, of Tanzania. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(e1180299) [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 190951: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 30.12.2017, edited by Joanna Wolfe
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Tanzanonautes tuerkai Feldmann 2007 crab | |
Actinopteri | |
Hydrocynus sp. Cuvier 1816 |