Where: Fayum, Egypt (29.3° N, 30.2° E: paleocoordinates 24.6° N, 26.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Birket Qarun Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• early Priabonian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; yellow claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: H. J. L. Beadnell. 1905. The topography and geology of the Fayum Province of Egypt. Survey Department of Egypt, Cairo 1-101 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 74738: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 27.08.2007

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