Where: Libya (31.0° N, 16.1° E: paleocoordinates 24.4° N, 12.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Wadi Tamet Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• A succession of interbedded creamy, cherty limestones, grey sandstones, chert nodules, crystalline gypsum, yellow sandy gypsiferous marls and yellow fossiliferous sandstones. Regarded as Lutetian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, concretionary, gypsiferous, white, cherty/siliceous limestone and gray, yellow sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: No detailed collection data reported.

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 42127: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.07.2004

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