Where: Egypt (30.0° N, 31.3° E: paleocoordinates 25.3° N, 27.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Maadi Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Gastropod breccia and Carolya-bed near Mosesquelle. Bed AAA1 of Schweinfurth corresponds to the basal part of the Maadi Formation (Unit II-1 and II-2 of Blanckenhorn).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, gray shale

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the SMNS

Primary reference: F. Noetling. 1885. Über Crustaceen aus dem Tertiär Aegyptens. Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1885:487-501 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 234271: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.03.2024

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