Wadi El Natrun (Pliocene of Egypt)

Also known as Wadi-el-Natrun; Wadi Natrun; Wadi Natrun

Where: Egypt (30.4° N, 30.3° E: paleocoordinates 30.2° N, 30.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Fortau. 1920. Contribution a l'etude des vertebres Miocenes de l'Egypt. Egypt Survey Department, Cairo 1-121 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 148393: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 19.07.2013, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
Euthecodon nitriae n. gen. n. sp.
Euthecodon nitriae n. gen. n. sp. Fortau 1920 crocodile
Holotype (skull)
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionyx pliocaenicus n. sp. Reinach 1903 softshell turtle
SMF R 4144 (holotype), carapacial and plastral fragments