Also known as "Green Beds", Wadi Gharandal
Where: Egypt (29.3° N, 33.0° E: paleocoordinates 23.4° N, 28.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: "Green Beds" Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• The upper Eocene in this area is divided into (from base to top), the Cardita Series, Green beds, gypsiderous marls, Tanak beds, and Red beds. The "Green Beds" are made up of green marls, 15-30 m (49-98 ft) thick. A Bartonian age gas been suggested for this unit.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: glauconitic, green marl
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
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 41909: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
| |
Foraminifera | |
Chondrichthyes | |
| |
"Oxyrhina desori" = Isurus oxyrinchus
|