Where: Saudi Arabia (25.7° N, 49.5° E: paleocoordinates 23.2° N, 47.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Hofuf Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• Age estimated at 12-13Ma, Vindobien, MN6. The formation contains rare Gastropods, Ostracods and Charophytes.

Environment/lithology:

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Over 600 vertebrate fossils recovered. Site found during Dam building in 1976. Material provisionally held in the Natural History Museum, Paris, and will be permanently conserved at the 'Universite du Petrole et des Mineraux', Dhahran.

Primary reference: H. Thomas, P. Taquet, G. Ligabue and C. Del'Agonola. 1978. Decouverte d'un gisement de Vertebres dans les depots continentaux du Miocene moyen du Hasa (Arabia saoudite). Comptes Rendus Sommaire des Societé Geologique Francais, Paris (2)69-72 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41818: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 21.07.2004

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