Where: Nugaal, Somalia (8.1° N, 49.8° E: paleocoordinates 5.9° N, 45.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)
• Oligocene-Miocene?
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
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 123799: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.01.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
? Astrocoenia miocenica Zuffardi-Comerci 1937 stony coral | |
? Siderastrea propitia Zuffardi-Comerci 1937 stony coral | |
"Heliastrea anomala" = Tarbellastraea anomala
"Heliastrea anomala" = Tarbellastraea anomala Michelotti 1871 stony coral | |
Heliastrea ? farquharsoni Latham 1929 stony coral |