Tura or Tora limestone quarry: Middle Eocene, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Perciformes
Percoidei indet. (Bleeker 1859)
2 specimens
"two species of Percoid fishes"
Actinopteri - Pleuronectiformes - Pleuronectidae
Solea eocenica n. sp. Woodward 1910
1 specimen
Actinopteri - Anguilliformes
Mylomyrus frangens n. gen., n. sp. Woodward 1910
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt
Coordinates: 29.9° North, 31.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:23.0° North, 26.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2-3
Key time interval: Middle Eocene
Age range of interval: 47.8 - 37.71 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mokattam
Stratigraphy comments: No formation given by Woodward, but well-known underground quarry is middle Eocene Mokattam Fm. See, for example, Klemm, D.D. and Klemm, R., 2001. The building stones of ancient Egypt–a gift of its geology. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 33(3), pp.631-642.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: found during commercial quarrying
Metadata
Database number:190954
Authorizer:P. Holroyd Enterer:P. Holroyd
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2017-12-30 22:02:59 Last modified:2017-12-30 22:02:59
Access level:the public Released:2017-12-30 22:02:59
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
64353. A. S. Woodward. 1910. On a Fossil Sole and a Fossil Eel from the Eocene of Egypt. Geological Magazine 7(9):402-405 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]