Where: Sperrgebiet, Namibia (27.4° S, 15.4° E: paleocoordinates 31.4° S, 8.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: NP 19-20 nannofossil zone, Langental Beds Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• The marine beds are only about 4 m thick. The age can be narrowly defined by the range overlap of Discoaster saipanensis and Isthmolithus recurvus. The former ranges from the middle to upper Eocene and the latter from upper Eocene to lower Oligocene. They co-occur only in the NP 19 and NP 20 zones of Martini's (1971) biostratigraphic zonal scheme, and only in the I. recurvus subzone of Bukry's (1975) zonal scheme. Informally named "Langental Beds."

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, green, yellow, calcareous siltstone and lithified, concretionary, shelly/skeletal, gray, green, yellow, calcareous sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: J. Böhm and W. Weisfermel. 1913. Über tertiäre Versteinerungen von den Bogenfelser Diamantfeldern. Beiträge zur Geologischen Erforschung der Deutschen Schutzgebiete 5:58-111 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 149316: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 01.08.2013

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