Also known as Gebel Zelten

Where: Libya (28.8° N, 19.6° E: paleocoordinates 27.7° N, 18.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• The Marada Formation represents a single depositional cycle that has evolved through transgression, still-stand, and regressive eustatic events that were overprinted by minor basinal tecton- ics. The terminal phase of the regressive events was marked by development of an unconformity that extends throughout north- east Africa (El-Hawat, 1980). Mastera (1985) divided the Marada Formation into two members: the Aquitanian–Burdigalian Garat Jahanam Member and the Aquitanian–Serravallian Ar-Rahlah Member, but ostracod faunas indicated a younger age for the upper part of the formation, extending it to the Tortonian age (Gammudi, 1996).

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: collected in 1967 by a Mr. Eckert of the Mobile Oil Company

Primary reference: E. R. Miller, B. R. Benefit, M. L. McCrossin, J. M. Plavcan, M. G. Leakey, A. N. El-Barkooky, M. A. Hamdan, M. K. Abdel Gawad, S. M. Hassan and E. L. Simons. 2009. Systematics of early and middle Miocene Old World monkeys. Journal of Human Evolution 57:195-211 [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 201726: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 23.05.2019

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