Where: Western Desert, Egypt (25.5° N, 29.4° E: paleocoordinates 13.6° N, 24.0° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ostrea osiris zone, Kurkur Formation, Early/Lower Paleocene to Early/Lower Paleocene (65.5 - 58.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shale

Primary reference: A. Kassab, A. Kenawy, and M. Zakhira. 1995. Biostratigraphy of some Upper Cretaceous/Lower Tertiary outcrops from the Egyptian Western Desert. Neues Jahrbuch fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie-Abhandlungen 196(3):309-326 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3135: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 27.07.1999, edited by Karen Layou