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
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 | |
Deinotherium hobleyi Andrews 1911 deinothere | |
"Eozygodon morotoensis" = Zygolophodon morotoensis
"Eozygodon morotoensis" = Zygolophodon morotoensis Pickford and Tassy 1980 mastodon |