Also known as Bijo Gora River, Berbera 25 km SE of
Where: Somalia (10.3° N, 45.2° E: paleocoordinates 2.8° N, 37.7° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Daban Group, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• Nautilus beds; Daban series (Domning et al 2010)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original calcite, original phosphate
Collected by W. A. Macfadyen, J. A. Hunt in 1928 - 1930
• JA: all material is apparently in the Sedgwick Museum; collection info is from Walker 1966
Primary reference: W. A. Macfayden. 1952. Note on the geology of the Daban Area and the localities of the described nautiloids. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 99:347-349 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 49873: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 29.04.2005, edited by John Alroy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Foraminifera | |
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Reptilia | |
Podocnemis somaliensis n. sp.
Podocnemis somaliensis n. sp. Walker 1966 sideneck turtle | |
Mammalia | |
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758 mammal | |
Sirenia indet. sirenian |