Where: Uganda (2.7° N, 34.7° E: paleocoordinates 1.6° N, 32.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Miocene to Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• Age constrained by being within Brachyodus range

•see comment on Moroto II concerning age assignment

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•Moroto II and II fauna are Early Miocene–Middle Miocene in age (Pickford et al. 2003; Grossman et al. 2014; Pickford et al. 2017)

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Environment/lithology: fluvial; mudstone and siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Uganda Paleontology Expedition

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• doesn't seem to be related to Moroto Mountain collection of Bishop, said to be from "the eastern valley" by Pickford et al. 2003

•microfossils obtained by "a wet screening programme during which ca 10 000 kg of sediment were treated"

Primary reference: M. Pickford, B. Senut, D. Hadoto, J. Musisi, and C. Kariira. 1986. Découvertes récentes dans les sites miocènes de Moroto (Ouganda Oriental): aspects biostratigraphiques et paléoécologiques (Recent discoveries in the Miocene sites at Moroto, North-East Uganda: biostratigraphical and palaeoecological implications). Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Serie II 9:681-686 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28293: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Jill Wertheim on 04.02.2003, edited by John Alroy and Philip Mannion

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