Where: Libya (29.2° N, 19.2° E: paleocoordinates 28.2° N, 17.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Marada Formation, Aquitanian to Aquitanian (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• The Marada Formation is divided into two members; a lower Qarat Jahannam Member and an upper Ar Rahlah Member. The type section of the Qarat Jahannam Member has a thickness of 123 m (404 ft). The member is made up mostly of green and yellow sandstones with minor green shales, calcareous sandstones, limestones, dolomites, and gypsum. Assigned an Aquitanian-Burdigalian age.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, dolomitic, gypsiferous, green, yellow, calcareous sandstone and green shale
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: No detailed collection data reported.
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 42130: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Prolibytherium magnieri Arambourg 1961 even-toed ungulate | |
"Mastodon cf. angustidens" = Tetrabelodon angustidens
"Mastodon cf. angustidens" = Tetrabelodon angustidens Cuvier 1806 gomphothere | |
Reptilia | |
Podocnemis aegyptica river turtle | |
Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle | |
Euthecodon sp. Fortau 1920 crocodile | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinolampas orlebari sea urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
Pecten cf. fuschi scallop
Chlamys submalvinae scallop | |
Placuna miocenica scallop | |
Foraminifera | |
Tubothalamea | |
Globothalamea | |