Also known as Unit 5, Maadi Formation, Gebel Kibli el Ahram
Where: Egypt (30.1° N, 31.3° E: paleocoordinates 24.2° N, 26.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Maadi Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• At Gebel Kibli el Ahram the Maadi Formation consists of, from base to top: 1) fissile marls; 2) fossiliferous marly limestones and siliceous limestione beds; 3) gypsiferous marls and brown limestones; 4) marly limestones; 5) BROWN SANDY LIMESTONES. Unspecified thickness.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: brown, sandy limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: Collection data based on review of previously published literature.
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 42051: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Callianassa sp. Leach 1814 decapod | |
Bivalvia | |
"Ostrea clotbeyi" = Alectryonia clotbeyi
"Ostrea clotbeyi" = Alectryonia clotbeyi Bellardi 1854 oyster | |
Echinoidea | |
Thagastea luciani sand dollar | |
Echinolampas humei sea urchin | |
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