Section A3 Temple Member, B. no 3 (Eocene of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (29.6° N, 31.2° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 19.2° N, 32.6° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Temple Member (Qasr El- Sagha Formation), Priabonian (37.7 - 33.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore; sandstone and marl

• repeated cycles of fine marly sandstone, gypsiferous marl, sandy shale, and carbonaceous mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: S. H. El-Shazly, G. I. Abdel-Gawad, Y. F. Salama and D. M. Sayed. 2016. Paleontology, paleobiogeography and paleoecology of Carolia-bearing beds from the Late Eocene rocks at Nile-Fayum Divide, Egypt. Journal of African Earth Sciences 124:447-477 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 184741: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 21.03.2017

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Carolia (Carolia) placunoides Cantraine 1838 jingle
Carolia (Carolia) placunoides placunoides