Also known as Unit 6, Maadi Formation, Gebel Mokattam

Where: Egypt (30.1° N, 31.3° E: paleocoordinates 24.2° N, 26.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Maadi Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• At Gebel Mokattam the Maadi Formation is made up of 1) bryozoan limestones, shales, and brown siliecous limestones; 2) foliated gypsiferous shales; 3) brown limestones; 4) coquinoidal limestones; 5) siliceous limestones with molluscs; 6) SILICEOUS LIMESTONES WITH ECHINOIDS; 7) calcareous sandstones. The total thickness of this seuqnece is approximately 90 m (295 ft).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shelly/skeletal, cherty/siliceous limestone

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 42057: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.07.2004

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