Egypt 12 (Gait El Ghorab) (Eocene of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (25.4° N, 32.4° E: paleocoordinates 19.6° N, 27.4° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: carbonate

Primary reference: H. L. Abbass. 1967. A monograph on the Egyptian Paleocene and Eocene gastropods. United Arab Republic, Geological Survey-Geological Museum, Palaeontological Series, Monograph (4)1-154 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2962: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 23.07.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Mitraria megahidi Abbass 1967 mitre shell
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Lyrischapa pyramida Abbass 1967 volute