Where: Egypt (30.0° N, 31.1° E: paleocoordinates 22.4° N, 26.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mokattam Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sand shoal; lithified packstone and lithified grainstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Aigner. 1983. Facies and origin of nummulitic buidups: an example from the Giza Pyramids Plateau (Middle Eocene, Egypt). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 166(3):347-368 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 76988: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.12.2007, edited by Matthew Clapham

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