Where: Libya (31.1° N, 15.6° E: paleocoordinates 24.5° N, 11.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Wadi Amur Series Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• White limestone. Dated as Lutetian, although the taxa on which this estimate of the underlying bed (lower Eocene) was originally based ranges from Paleocene to middle Eocene. Has been included in the Gebel Uaddan Series.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: white limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: No detailed collection data reported.
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 42124: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Tubothalamea | |
Bivalvia | |
Cardita sp. Bruguière 1792 clam | |
Malacostraca | |
Callianassa sp. Leach 1814 decapod |