Where: Mbeya, Tanzania (8.9° S, 33.5° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 16.4° S, 33.0° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nsungwe Formation (Red Sandstone Group), Late/Upper Oligocene (27.3 - 23.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: W. N. Stevens, K. M. Claeson, and N. J. Stevens. 2016. Alestid (Characiformes: Alestidae) fishes from the late Oligocene Nsungwe Formation, Rukwa Rift Basin, of Tanzania. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(e1180299) [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 190951: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 30.12.2017, edited by Joanna Wolfe

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