Also known as Kom el Shelul Formation, Maadi
Where: Al Jizah, Egypt (30.1° N, 31.2° E: paleocoordinates 29.9° N, 31.0° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Kom el Shelul Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• The type section of the formation is at Kom el Shelul. This section is 24 m (82 ft) in thickness and made up on coquinoidal limestones, marls, and fossiliferous sandstones in the lower part and non-fossiliferous sandstone with flint pebbles in the upper part. The collection is from the lower part.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, calcareous limestone and shelly/skeletal 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 42118: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Clypeaster aegyptiacus sand dollar | |
Gastropoda | |
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Bivalvia | |
Pecten benedictus, "Chlamys scabrella" = Chlamys scabrellus
Pecten benedictus scallop
"Chlamys scabrella" = Chlamys scabrellus Lamarck 1819 scallop |