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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Aequipecten scabrellus" = Chlamys scabrellus Lamarck 1819 scallop
Aequipecten zitteli scallop
Pecten vezzanensis scallop |