Yale Quarry H (Eocene of Egypt)

Where: Fayum, Egypt (29.5° N, 30.5° E: paleocoordinates 24.9° N, 26.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Dir Abu Lifa Member (Qasr el Sagha Formation), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithology not reported

• Dir Abu Lifa Member dominated by cross-bedded sandstone and mudrock sequences

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the YPM

Primary reference: P. A. Holroyd, E. L. Simons, T. M. Bown, P. D. Polly, and M. J. Kraus. 1996. New records of terrestrial mammals from the upper Eocene Qasr el Sagha Formation, Fayum Depression, Egypt. Palaeovertebrata 25(2-4):175-192 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 181551: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 15.09.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Moeritheriidae
Moeritherium lyonsi Andrews 1901 proboscidean
YPM 24839, partial skeleton