Weti (Miocene to of Tanzania)

Where: Tanzania (5.1° S, 39.7° E: paleocoordinates 5.9° S, 38.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Chake-Chake Member (Pemba Formation), Early/Lower Miocene to Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• Pemba Series, Chake-Chake beds

Environment/lithology: coastal; gray claystone

• gray clay

Primary reference: M. Pickford. 2008. Middle Miocene vertebrate fauna from Pemba Island, Tanzania. South African Journal of Science 104:231-237 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 89015: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 28.04.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
cf. Canthumeryx sp. Hamilton 1973 giraffe
 Sirenia -
Sirenia indet. Illiger 1811 sirenian
Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Crocodylidae