Auchas Pit AM 03: Early/Lower Miocene - Middle Miocene, Namibia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Eozygodon morotoensis
(Pickford and Tassy 1980)
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| original and current combination Zygolophodon morotoensis | |||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Deinotheriidae
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Deinotherium hobleyi
Andrews 1911
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| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Namibia |
| Coordinates: | 28.3° South, 16.8° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 29.1° South, 14.7° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Altitude: | 40 meters |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Miocene - Middle Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.03000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Local section: | Auchus | Local bed: | 37-45 m | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Stratigraphic positions above are in meters above sea level | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | poorly lithified silty,sandy "siliciclastic" | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Lithology description: "..up to 30 m of fluviatile sediment of diverse types ranging from extremely course conglomerates to sands, silts and clays..." | |||
| Environment: | "channel" | Tectonic setting: | passive margin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,permineralized,replaced with silica |
| Degree of concentration: | -lag |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
| Spatial resolution: | allochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection,observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collection method comments: Some specimens collected by local miners | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Auchas | ||
| Database number: | 195404 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2018-08-07 09:49:28 | Last modified: | 2018-08-07 09:49:28 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-08-07 09:49:28 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 48491. | 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] |