Sandouk el-Borneta: Priabonian, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Basilosauridae
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Dorudon atrox
(Andrews 1906)
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Basilosaurus isis
(Andrews 1904)
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Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Hemigaleidae
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Moerigaleus vitreodon n. gen., n. sp.
Underwood and Ward 2011
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Underwood and Ward 2011 | 58 specimens | |||||
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Geography
| Country: | Egypt |
| Coordinates: | 29.3° North, 30.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 24.6° North, 26.0° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
| *Period: | Early/Lower Tertiary | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Eocene |
| *International age/stage: | Late/Upper Bartonian - Early/Lower Priabonian | ||
| Key time interval: | Priabonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Birket Qarun |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | yellow sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: no lithological information | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Articulated whole bodies: | some |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | surface (float),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 13102 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-01-21 09:45:45 | Last modified: | 2022-03-23 10:27:29 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-01-21 09:45:45 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 6026. | 5% 17360 | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 35612 | C. J. Underwood and D. J. Ward. 2011. New hemigaleid shark form the late Eocene of Wadi Al-Hitan, Egypt. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(3):707-711 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Uhen] |