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Abstract
In the northern part of the Egyptian Eastern Desert, the Miocene sediments are exposed on both sides of the Cairo-Suez Road. They stretched from east of Cairo up to the west of Great Bitter Lakes and constitute characteristic lithofacies of carbonate/siliciclastic facies that could be differentiated from other stratigraphic units (e.g., Hassan and Hany, 2012). It consists of clastic-dominated facies, termed as the Gharra Formation and upper carbonate-dominated facies of the Geniefa Formation (Ghorab and Marzouk, 1965 Many authors have discussed the stratigraphy and fauna of the study area, including Said and Yallouze (1955), Said and Metwalli (1964), Mandic and Piller (2001), El-Sorogy (2015) and El-Sorogy et al. (2017). However, there is little information on taphonomy and ichnotaxonomy of this area.1. Setting up the database through collecting the previous work on the study area 2. Collecting the rock samples and faunal assemblage throughout the measured sections 3. Establishing a reliable lithostratigraphic classification based on lithologic concept and lateral facies change 4. Establishing a reliable biostratigraphic scheme based on macro- and/or microfaunal content 5. Facies analysis of the Miocene rock units based on microfacies investigations 6. Generic and specific determination of both body and trace fossils collected from the study sections 7. Qualitative and quantitative taphonomic analyses of the faunal assemblagesin the study sections 8. Reconstructboth paleoenvironmental and paleodepositionalconditions prevailedduring deposition of the Miocene sequence of the study area.