Kamelpass: Bartonian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Calianassa sp.
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Carolia sp. Cantraine 1838
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula sp. Lamarck 1801
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758
Ostrea clotbeyi Bellardi 1854
recombined as Alectryonia clotbeyi
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt
Coordinates: 29.6° North, 30.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:23.8° North, 25.9° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Bartonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Bartonian
Age range of interval:41.20000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mokattam Member:upper
Local order:top to bottom
Regional order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Articulated whole bodies:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some microfossils
Collection methods:selective quarrying
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:79674
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-03-17 14:53:26 Last modified:2009-02-10 14:28:33
Access level:the public Released:2008-03-17 14:53:26
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
29185. 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]