Garet Umm Rigl, Gehannam Formation (Eocene of Egypt)

Where: Fayum, Egypt (29.5° N, 30.5° E: paleocoordinates 24.8° N, 26.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Age based on Underwood et al., 2011

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gypsiferous, gray claystone

• gray, clay shale with gypsum

Size class: macrofossils

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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 153755: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 13.01.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Masracetus markgrafi Gingerich 2007 whale
"near Qaret Umm Regl section"