Auchas Pit AM 02: 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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Pickford 2003 | |||||||||
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Prodeinotherium hobleyi
(Andrews 1911)
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Progomphotherium maraisi n. gen., n. sp.
Pickford 2003
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Pickford 2003 | |||||||||
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Proboscidea indet.
Illiger 1811
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= Gomphotherium sp.
Burmeister 1837
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Pickford and Senut 2000 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Hyracoidea
- Procaviidae
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Prohyrax sp.
Stromer 1926
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Mammalia
- Macroscelidea
- Myohyracidae
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Myohyrax cf. oswaldi
Andrews 1914
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Rhinocerotidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Anthracotheriidae
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Brachyodus indet.
Depéret 1895
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Pickford 2003 | |||||||||
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= Brachyodus depereti
Fourtau 1918
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Pickford 2003 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
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Diamantomys luederitzi
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| originally entered as "Diamantomys leuderitzi" | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Podocnemididae
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aff. Erymnochelys sp.
Baur 1888
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de Lapparent de Broin 2003 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudo sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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= Namibchersus namaquensis
Stromer 1926
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de Lapparent de Broin 2003 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
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Crocodylus sp.
Laurenti 1768
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= Crocodylia indet.
Owen 1842
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Pickford 2003 | |||||||||
| Isolated tooth and distal humerus | ||||||||||
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= Eusuchia indet.
Huxley 1875
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Alroy 2009 | |||||||||
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Aves indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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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,conglomeratic "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: | 70420 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Clyde, P. Holroyd, M. Uhen, P. Mannion, J. Alroy, E. Vlachos | Enterer: | W. Clyde, P. Holroyd, M. Uhen, P. Mannion, J. Alroy, E. Vlachos | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-03-22 07:49:35 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-03-22 07:49:33 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 23618. | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 29343 | J. Alroy. 2009. High-handed opinions on taxonomy and other matters. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 66484 | F. de Lapparent de Broin. 2003. Miocene Chelonians from southern Namibia. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Namibia 19:67-102 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
| 72379 | M. Pickford . 2003. Early and middle Miocene Anthracotheriidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the Sperregebiet, Namibia. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Namibia 19:283-289 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] | |
| 46784 | M. Pickford. 2003. A new species of Crocodile from Early and Middle Miocene deposits of the lower Orange River Valley, Namibia, and the origins of the Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus). Memoir Geological Survey, Namibia 19:51-65 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
| 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] | |
| 19863 | 5% 54080 | M. Pickford and B. Senut. 2000. Geology and Palaeobiology of the Central and Southern Namib Desert, Southwestern Africa, Volume 1: Geology and History of Study. Geological Survey of Namibia, Memoire 18 1-155 [W. Clyde/W. Clyde/J. Alroy] |