Auchas Pit AM 03 (Miocene to of Namibia)

Also known as Auchas

Where: Namibia (28.3° S, 16.8° E: paleocoordinates 29.1° S, 14.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Miocene to Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• Stratigraphic positions above are in meters above sea level

Environment/lithology: "channel"; poorly lithified, silty, sandy siliciclastic sediments

• "..up to 30 m of fluviatile sediment of diverse types ranging from extremely course conglomerates to sands, silts and clays..."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: permineralized, replaced with silica

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• Some specimens collected by local miners

Primary reference: M. Pickford. 2003. New Proboscidea from the Miocene strata in th elower Orange River Valley, Namibia. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Namibia 19:207-256 [M. Uhen/J. David/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 195404: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 07.08.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Deinotherium hobleyi Andrews 1911 deinothere
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
"Eozygodon morotoensis" = Zygolophodon morotoensis
"Eozygodon morotoensis" = Zygolophodon morotoensis Pickford and Tassy 1980 mastodon