Qarat al Gata - Gata Member, Wadi Tamet Formation (Eocene of Libya)

Where: Libya (29.8° N, 16.6° E: paleocoordinates 23.2° N, 12.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Gata Member (Wadi Tamet Formation), Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• Only the upper 75 m (246 ft) of the member is exposed and it is overlain with a conformably sharp contact by the Tmed el Ksour Member. The exposed part consists of dolomites, argillaceous limestones, marlstones, calcareous claystones, and claystones. The upper 18 m (59 ft) is made up of cross-bedded dolomites and contains a coquinoid bed. Dated based on forams as Lutetian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal dolomite

• No paleoenvironmental data provided.
• Cross-bedded dolomites and contains a coquinoid bed.

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 42128: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.07.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Collection based on taxa listed in text as typical of formation. Includes only mollusca and foraminifera.
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Discorbidae
Discorbis vesicularis Lamarck 1804
Foraminifera
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae