ammonites
NNW of Birket Qarun (Oligocene of Egypt)

Also known as NNW of Birket-el-Qurun

Where: Fayum, Egypt (29.6° N, 30.6° E: paleocoordinates 26.3° N, 27.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gebel Qatrani Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.4 Ma)

• Upper Fossil Wood Zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial

• no information on lithology

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. W. Andrews. 1906. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Tertiary Vertebrata of Fayum, Egypt 1-324 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Alroy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 65960: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 26.09.2006