Kamelpass (Eocene of Egypt)

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
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Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula sp. Lamarck 1801 scallop
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Carolia sp. Cantraine 1838 scallop
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp., "Ostrea clotbeyi" = Alectryonia clotbeyi
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
"Ostrea clotbeyi" = Alectryonia clotbeyi Bellardi 1854 oyster
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle