Where: Somalia (11.2° N, 49.0° E: paleocoordinates 10.8° N, 47.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Dubar Formation (Guban Group), Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: G. Facca, G. Merla, 1938-1939. REPOSITORY: Museo dell' Istituto Geologico dell' Universitá di Firenze.
Primary reference: A. Azzaroli. 1958. L'Oligocene e il Miocene della Somalia. Stratigrafia, Tettonica, Paleontologia (Macroforaminferi, Coralli, Molluschi). Palaeontolographia Italica 52:1-142 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 123804: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.01.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Dendracis bifaria Gregory 1930 stony coral
Astreopora hemisphaerica Duncan 1880 stony coral | |
Porites multilamellata Gregory 1925 stony coral | |
Goniastrea cf. parvistella Dana 1846 stony coral |