Also known as Maadi Formation, Maadi
Where: Egypt (29.9° N, 30.6° E: paleocoordinates 24.1° N, 25.9° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Basal Member (Maadi Formation), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• The Maadi Formation varies in thickness, but is 64 m (131 ft) at Maadi. The base of the formation (this collection) is composed of brown sandy limestones, with shales and sandy shales in the upper part ("Ain Musa bed"). The Maadi Formation has been assigned an upper Eocene age.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: brown, sandy limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: Collection data based on review of previously published literature.
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 41917: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Ostrea clotbeyi" = Alectryonia clotbeyi, Ostrea fraasi
"Ostrea clotbeyi" = Alectryonia clotbeyi Bellardi 1854 oyster
Ostrea fraasi Mayer-Eymar 1888 oyster | |
Plicatula polymorpha Bellardi 1854 scallop | |
Carolia placunoides Cantraine 1838 scallop | |
Foraminifera | |
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