Also known as Birket Qarun Formation, Gebel Qatrani
Where: Egypt (29.7° N, 30.6° E: paleocoordinates 23.9° N, 25.9° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Birket Qarun Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• Overlies the Qasr el Sagha Formation, and is overlain by the Oligocene Qatrani Formation. The succession from which list originates is 180 m (591 ft) thick.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, gypsiferous, shelly/skeletal, argillaceous, cherty/siliceous limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: E. E. Tawadros. 2001. Geology of Egypt and Libya 1-468 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 41916: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Carolia placunoides Cantraine 1838 scallop | |
"Ostrea multicostata" = Cubitostrea multicostata, Ostrea reili, "Ostrea clotbeyi" = Alectryonia clotbeyi
"Ostrea multicostata" = Cubitostrea multicostata Deshayes 1832 oyster
Ostrea reili oyster
"Ostrea clotbeyi" = Alectryonia clotbeyi Bellardi 1854 oyster |