Where: Somalia (11.5° N, 49.9° E: paleocoordinates 10.8° N, 47.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Dubar Formation (Guban Group), Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Dubar Fm [enterers usage] of the Guban Series [group?], and presumably regionally overlies Early Miocene strata (equivalent to the Naag Fm) and is overlain by the Late Miocene conglomerate. AGE: Early Miocene, equivalent to Burdigalian and upper Gaj according to author on the basis of larger formaniferal and molluscan biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTOR: G. Facca, G. Merla, 1938-1939. REPOSITORY: Museo dell' Istituto Geologico dell' Universitá di Firenze.
Primary reference: A. Azzaroli. 1958. L'Oligocene e il Miocene della Somalia. Stratigrafia, Tettonica, Paleontologia (Macroforaminferi, Coralli, Molluschi). Palaeontolographia Italica 52:1-142 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 79099: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.02.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Alveopora somaliensis Azzaroli 1958 stony coral | |
Gastropoda | |
Cypraea sp. Linnaeus 1758 cowry | |
Foraminifera | |