South side of mouth, Wadi Gharandel (Miocene of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (29.3° N, 32.9° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 24.0° N, 33.3° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• "lower beds of [the] Miocene series"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, white limestone

• light-colored (white mottled with brown) crystalline limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Robert van Vleck Anderson in 1921

• Repository: Stanford University

Primary reference: A. K. Miller and H. R. Downs. 1950. Tertiary nautiloids of the Americas: supplement. Journal of Paleontology 24:1-18 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180423: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.07.2016

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Aturiidae
Aturia sp.
Aturia sp. Bronn 1838