Where: Libya (33.9° N, 12.6° E: paleocoordinates 25.6° N, 9.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Jdeir Formation (Farwah Group), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• Late Ypresian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: sand shoal; lithified packstone and lithified grainstone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: core,
Primary reference: J. M. Anketell and I. Y. Mriheel. 2000. Depositional environment and diagenesis of the Eocene Jdeir Formation, Gabes-Tripoli Basin, western offshore Libya. Journal of Petroleum Geology 23(4):425-447 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 77111: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.12.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Bolivinidae indet. Glaessner 1937 | |
Tubothalamea | |
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839 | |
Foraminifera | |
Nodosariata | |
Polymorphinidae indet. d'Orbigny 1839 | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
unclassified | |
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758
Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754 |