Where: Egypt (29.0° N, 30.1° E: paleocoordinates 22.2° N, 25.3° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Midawara Formation, Lutetian to Lutetian (47.8 - 38.0 Ma)
• thin glauconitic seam ?35 m below top of Formation
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; glauconitic sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ)
Primary reference: C. J. Underwood, D. J. Ward, C. King, S. M. Antar, I. S. Zalmout and P. D. Gingerich. 2011. Shark and ray faunas in the Middle and Late Eocene of the Fayum Area, Egypt. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 122(1):47-66 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 137536: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.12.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Dasyatis sp. Rafinesque 1810 whiptail stingray | |
Pristidae indet. Bonaparte 1838 sawfish | |
Rhynchobatus sp. Müller and Henle 1837 wedgefish | |
Abdounia sp. Cappetta 1980 cat shark | |
cf. Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816 requiem shark | |
Galeocerdo sp. Müller and Henle 1837 tiger shark |