Also known as Giran El Ful Member, Maadi Formation, Sakkara

Where: Egypt (29.9° N, 31.2° E: paleocoordinates 24.0° N, 26.6° E)

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• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Giran El Ful Member (Maadi Formation), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• In the Sakkara area the Maadi Formation is divided into two members; the Sakkara Member at the base and the Giran El Ful Member at the top. The Sakkara Member consists of a basal bed, approximately 4 m (13 ft) in thickness, exposed only at the Abu Sir plateau, and it is composed on greyish-green, marl shales, with some gypsum veins, and an upper bed of alternating ligh yellow, hard limestones, and yellow marls, approximately 22 m (72 ft) and few fossils. The Giran El Ful Member is approx. 17 m (57 ft) thick and composed of sandy to marly limestones and shales and is highly fossiliferous. It is overlain by the Early Pliocene Kom El Shelul Formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal, sandy limestone and shelly/skeletal shale

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: Collection data based on review of previously published literature.

Primary reference: E. E. Tawadros. 2001. Geology of Egypt and Libya 1-468 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 42050: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.07.2004

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