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, conglomeratic 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, B. Senut, P. Mein, J. Morales, D. Spria, M. Nieto, J. Ward and M. Bamford. 1995. The discovery of lower and middle Miocene vertebrates at Auchas, southern Namibia. Comptes rendus de l"Academie des sciences. Serie 2. Sciences de la terre et des planetes 322(10):901-906 [W. Clyde/W. Clyde]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 70421: authorized by Will Clyde, entered by Will Clyde on 22.03.2007, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

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