Also known as Wadi Rayan Formation, Qurn, Helwan
Where: Egypt (29.9° N, 31.3° E: paleocoordinates 22.3° N, 26.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Wadi Rayan Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)
• Wadi Rayan Formation is upper Lutetian (Eocene) and largely composed of glauconitic limestones. Wadi Rayan Formation is correlated to the Tanka Formation in the Gulk of Suez. At the type locality the Wadi Rayan Formation is made up of 25 m (82 ft) section of poorly fossiliferous sandy shales with a hard, highly fossiliferous middle bed containing the collection.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal, sandy shale
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: E. E. Tawadros. 2001. Geology of Egypt and Libya 1-468 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 41914: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Nicaisolopha clotbeyi oyster | |
Plicatula polymorpha Bellardi 1854 scallop |