Where: Egypt (26.6° N, 31.7° E: paleocoordinates 21.0° N, 27.0° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Bartonian (40.4 - 37.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: carbonate

Primary reference: H. L. Abbass. 1967. A monograph on the Egyptian Paleocene and Eocene gastropods. United Arab Republic, Geological Survey-Geological Museum, Palaeontological Series, Monograph (4)1-154 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/A. Clement] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2961: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 23.07.1999