Where: Egypt (30.0° N, 31.3° E: paleocoordinates 22.4° N, 26.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mokattam Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• Owen's description of "white calcareous stone, quarried of old to an enormous extent" suggests that the nautilids come from the lower part of the Mokattam Formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, white limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. Owen; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: A. H. Foord. 1891. Catalogue of the Fossil Cephalopoda in the British Museum (Natural History), Part II. Containing the Remainder of the Suborder Nautiloidea, Consisting of the Families Lituitidae, Trochoceratidae, and Nautilidae, with a Supplement 1-407 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180210: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.07.2016

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