Where: Egypt (29.9° N, 31.3° E: paleocoordinates 23.0° N, 26.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mokattam Formation, Middle Eocene (48.6 - 37.2 Ma)
• No formation given by Woodward, but well-known underground quarry is middle Eocene Mokattam Fm. See, for example, Klemm, D.D. and Klemm, R., 2001. The building stones of ancient Egypt–a gift of its geology. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 33(3), pp.631-642.
Environment/lithology: marine; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: found during commercial quarrying
Primary reference: A. S. Woodward. 1910. On a Fossil Sole and a Fossil Eel from the Eocene of Egypt. Geological Magazine 7(9):402-405 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 190954: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 30.12.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
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Solea eocenica n. sp.
Solea eocenica n. sp. Woodward 1910 flatfish | |
Mylomyrus frangens n. gen. n. sp.
Mylomyrus frangens n. gen. n. sp. Woodward 1910 eel |