Sandouk el-Borneta (Eocene of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (29.3° N, 30.0° E: paleocoordinates 24.6° N, 26.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Birket Qarun Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; yellow sandstone

• no lithological information

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: P. D. Gingerich. 1992. Marine Mammals (Cetacean and Sirenia) from the Eocene of Gebel Mokattam and Fayum, Egypt: Stratigraphy, Age, and Paleoenvironments. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 30:1-84 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13102: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 21.01.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Dorudon atrox Andrews 1906 whale
Basilosaurus isis Andrews 1904 whale
Chondrichthyes
 Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
Moerigaleus vitreodon n. gen. n. sp.
Moerigaleus vitreodon n. gen. n. sp. Underwood and Ward 2011 ground shark