Wadi Sheghega - "Wadi Amur Series" (Eocene of Libya)

Where: Libya (31.1° N, 15.6° E: paleocoordinates 24.5° N, 11.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• White limestone. Dated as Lutetian, although the taxa on which this estimate of the underlying bed (lower Eocene) was originally based ranges from Paleocene to middle Eocene. Has been included in the Gebel Uaddan Series.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: white limestone

• No paleoenvironmental data provided.
• White limestone.

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

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 42124: 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 mollusca and foraminifera.
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Soritidae
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Callianassidae
Callianassa sp. Leach 1814 decapod
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Carditidae
Cardita sp. Bruguière 1792 clam