Giza Pyramids Plateau, coral patch reef (Eocene of Egypt)

Also known as Reef 3660

Where: Egypt (30.0° N, 31.1° E: paleocoordinates 22.4° N, 26.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mokattam Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• small coral patch reefs (several decimeters to a few meters in diameter) in carbonate debris shoals in protected areas behind the Nummulites bank

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Aigner. 1983. Facies and origin of nummulitic buidups: an example from the Giza Pyramids Plateau (Middle Eocene, Egypt). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 166(3):347-368 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 76989: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.12.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Actinacididae
Actinacis sp.
Actinacis sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral