Wadi El Fuqaha - "El Fuqaha Formation": Lutetian, Libya
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Koilospatangus cleopatrae
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Nummulitidae
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Operculina hardiei
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Operculina thouini
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Echinoidea
- Echinolampadoida
- Echinolampadidae
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Echinolampas sp.
Gray 1825
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Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Schizasteridae
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Linthia desioi
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Linthia navillei
de Loriol 1880
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Schizaster mokattamensis
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Malleidae
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Vulsella eymari
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Vulsella cf. crispata
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Vulsella cf. pseudocrispata
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea aviola
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Gryphaea pharaonum
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| Subspecies: Gryphaea pharaonum var. aviculina | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Libya |
| Coordinates: | 27.6° North, 36.2° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 18.2° North, 29.4° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Lutetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Lutetian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 47.80000 - 41.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | El Fuqaha | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: A unit composed of green and yellow, argillaceous, sandy and gypsiferous limestones. Assigned a Middle Eocene age and correlated to Midde-upper Eocene Wadi Tamit Formation and Paleocene-lower Eocene Gebel Uadan Formation. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gypsiferous,green,yellow argillaceous,sandy "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Green and yellow, argillaceous, sandy and gypsiferous limestones. | |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
| Geology comments: Neashore. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collection method comments: No detailed collection data reported. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:Collection based on taxa listed in text as typical of formation. Includes mollusca, echinodermata, and foraminifera. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 42123 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-07-24 00:12:34 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-07-24 00:12:34 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 11199. | E. E. Tawadros. 2001. Geology of Egypt and Libya 1-468 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Clapham] |