Also known as Fayum "lower sequence"

Where: Fayum, Egypt (29.5° N, 30.6° E: paleocoordinates 26.1° N, 27.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Quarry E is in the "lower sequence" (there are two general fossil producing levels in the Jebel Qatrani, the "upper" and the "lower" sequences), and from the Lower Fossil Wood zone according to Simons and Kay 1983

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone and mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: E. L. Simons and R. F. Kay. 1983. Qatrania, new basal anthropoid primate from the Fayum, Oligocene of Egypt. Nature 304:624-626 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 12968: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 12.01.2002, edited by John Alroy, Chris Beard, Jason Head and Mark Uhen

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