Where: Egypt (29.1° N, 30.1° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 16.8° N, 31.8° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Midawara Formation, Lutetian to Lutetian (47.8 - 38.0 Ma)

• glauconitic and non-glauconitic mudstones 8-10 m below top of Formation

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; glauconitic mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

Primary reference: C. J. Underwood, D. J. Ward, C. King, S. M. Antar, I. S. Zalmout and P. D. Gingerich. 2011. Shark and ray faunas in the Middle and Late Eocene of the Fayum Area, Egypt. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 122(1):47-66 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 137539: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.12.2012

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