Wadi Hitan ZV-54NW: 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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Prozeuglodon sp.
Andrews 1906
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= Dorudon atrox
Andrews 1906
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Uhen 2004 | ||||||
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Basilosaurus isis
(Andrews 1904)
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Cancridae
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Lobocarcinus sp.
Reuss 1857
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Geography
| Country: | Egypt | State/province: | Fayum |
| 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 | ||
| Key time interval: | Priabonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Gehannam | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Age after Underwood et al. 2011, PaleoDB ref 43835. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray argillaceous "shale" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | offshore |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Associated major elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 13103 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-01-21 09:50:38 | Last modified: | 2017-03-01 15:47:16 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-01-21 09:50:38 |
| 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:
| 10457 | M. D. Uhen. 2004. Form, Function, and Anatomy of Dorudon atrox (Mammalia, Cetacea): An Archaeocete from the Middle to Late Eocene of Egypt. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 34:1-222 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |