Where: Egypt (29.6° N, 30.6° E: paleocoordinates 23.8° N, 25.9° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: upper Member (Mokattam Formation), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Collection methods: quarrying
Primary reference: M. Blanckenhorn. 1900. Neus zur Geologie und Paleontologie Aegyptens. II. Das Palaeogne. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 52:403-479 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 79674: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 17.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Plicatula sp. Lamarck 1801 scallop | |
Carolia sp. Cantraine 1838 scallop | |
Ostrea sp., "Ostrea clotbeyi" = Alectryonia clotbeyi
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
"Ostrea clotbeyi" = Alectryonia clotbeyi Bellardi 1854 oyster | |
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle |