Where: Egypt (29.6° N, 30.7° E: paleocoordinates 24.9° N, 26.6° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Qasr el-Sagha Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale and limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: G. R. Case and H. Cappetta. 1990. The Eocene selachian fauna from the Fayum Depression in Egypt. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 212(Lfg. 1-6):1-30 [J. Kriwet/W. Glaeser]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 62468: authorized by Juergen Kriwet, entered by Wolfgang Glaeser on 20.07.2006, edited by Mark Uhen and Evangelos Vlachos

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