Original scientific paper

First record of brachiopods from the Eocene of Egypt

Maria Aleksandra Bitner ; Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warszawa, Poland
Mohamed Boukhary ; Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Abstract

The brachiopod species Terebratulina tenuistriata (Leymerie) has been identified in the Middle Eocene (Bartonian) nummulitic limestone of the Upper Building Stone Member of the Mokattam Formation at El Basatin of Gebel Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt. The brachiopod is associated with Nummulites farisi Hussein, Boukhary & Kamal, N. praestriatus Boukhary & Kamal and N. bullatus Azzaroli. This is the first record of brachiopods from the Eocene of Egypt and northern Africa. T. tenuistriata is common and widely distributed in the Eocene deposits of Europe, and the present record extends its geographical range further south, to the southern shelf of the Tethys.

Keywords

Brachiopoda; Terebratulina; Middle Eocene; Bartonian; Egypt

Hrčak ID:

45323

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/45323

Publication date:

31.12.2009.

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