Where: Libya (32.8° N, 21.9° E: paleocoordinates 30.7° N, 19.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Cyrene Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• The Cyrene Limestone (now Cyrene Formation) comprises soft, earthy, white and grey limestones and marls overlying the Slonta Limestone. This beds have been placed in the Aquitanian, then considered to be Upper Oligocene.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: poorly lithified, brown, gray, white limestone

Size class: macrofossils

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 42140: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.07.2004

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