Also known as Wadi Rayan Formation, Qurn, Helwan

Where: Egypt (29.9° N, 31.3° E: paleocoordinates 22.3° N, 26.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Wadi Rayan Formation, Lutetian (48.6 - 40.4 Ma)

• Wadi Rayan Formation is upper Lutetian (Eocene) and largely composed of glauconitic limestones. Wadi Rayan Formation is correlated to the Tanka Formation in the Gulk of Suez. At the type locality the Wadi Rayan Formation is made up of 25 m (82 ft) section of poorly fossiliferous sandy shales with a hard, highly fossiliferous middle bed containing the collection.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal, sandy shale

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: E. E. Tawadros. 2001. Geology of Egypt and Libya. AA Balkema, Rotterdam 1-468 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 41914: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.07.2004

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