Where: Egypt (29.2° N, 25.7° E: paleocoordinates 28.1° N, 24.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• Precise stratigraphic provenance is uncertain, but it is likely to be from the lower Miocene Moghra (=Moghara) Formation (Hamilton 1973; Burke and Mannion 2023)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

• Purchased from Lady Moon in 1920

Primary reference: W. R. Hamilton. 1973. A lower Miocene mammalian fauna from Siwa, Egypt. Palaeontology 16(2):275-281 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123296: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 18.01.2012

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