Where: Libya (29.2° N, 16.5° E: paleocoordinates 20.5° N, 12.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Al Jir Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• The succession starts at the base with an 11 m (36 ft) bed of coarse-grained, wavy laminated anhydrite withtow interbeds of bioclastic dolomite, followed upward by a 19 m (62 ft) interval of porous, chalk dolomite with a large amount of poikilitic gypsum and intercalations of anhydrite, a 6 (20 ft) bed of anhydrite, and then by an 8 m (26 ft) section of gypsiferous dolomite at the top. The collect is from this uppermost dolomite. This unit overlies the Rouaga Member of the Beshima Formation and is overlain by the Al Gata Member of the Wadi Tamit Formation. Both contacts are gradational.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gypsiferous dolomite

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 42126: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.07.2004

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