Wadi Thamat - Wadi Tamet Formation (Eocene of Libya)

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

• No paleoenvironmental data provided.
• Interbedded creamy, cherty limestones, grey sandstones, chert nodules, crystalline gypsum, yellow sandy gypsiferous marls and yellow fossiliferous sandstones.

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

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Collection based on taxa listed in text as typical of formation. Includes only mollusca and echinodermata.
Foraminifera
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Gisortia gigantea Munster 1828 cowry
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea multicostata" = Cubitostrea multicostata, Ostrea bouillei
"Ostrea multicostata" = Cubitostrea multicostata Deshayes 1832 oyster
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina pharaonis Bellardi 1854 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Cytherea nitidula" = Callocardia (Nitidavenus) nitidula
"Cytherea nitidula" = Callocardia (Nitidavenus) nitidula Lamarck 1806 venus clam
 Cardiida - Ungulinidae
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Echinoidea
 Spatangoida -
Brissoides figarii heart urchin
 Clypeasteroida - Fibulariidae
Scutellina concava sand dollar
 Echinolampadoida - Echinolampadidae