Also known as Twenty feet above the base of the deltaic sandstone facies of the Qasr el-Sagha Formation

Where: Fayum, Egypt (29.6° N, 30.7° E: paleocoordinates 24.9° N, 26.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Qasr el-Sagha Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale and sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1963

Primary reference: E. L. Simons and P. D. Gingerich. 1976. A new species of Apterodon (Mammalia, Creodonta) from the upper Eocene Qasr el-Sagha Formation of Egypt. Postilla 168:1-9 [P. Coster/P. Coster/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175910: authorized by Pauline Coster, entered by Pauline Coster on 18.01.2016, edited by Patricia Holroyd

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