Minqar el-Hut: Priabonian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Basilosaurus isis (Andrews 1904)
Cynthiacetus maxwelli Uhen 2005
Uhen 2005 1 specimen
This specimen is from the Gehannam Formation of Zeuglodon Valley, but it is unclear precisely where.
    = Masracetus markgrafi Gingerich 2007
Gingerich 2007
Dorudon atrox (Andrews 1906)
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt State/province:Fayum
Coordinates: 29.3° North, 30.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.6° North, 26.3° 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 Bartonian
Key time interval:Priabonian
Age range of interval:38.00000 - 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:red or brown "shale"
Secondary lithology: silty,sandy marl
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: brown shale with gypsum, cliff forming in places: white marl, silt, sandstone
Environment:offshore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:13403
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-03-14 11:30:03 Last modified:2013-01-03 13:46:03
Access level:the public Released:2002-03-14 11:30:03
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

6026.5% 17360P. 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:

26587 P. D. Gingerich. 2007. Stromerius nidensis, New Archaeocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) From The Upper Eocene Qasr El-Sagha Formation, Fayum, Egypt. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, The University of Michigan 31(13):363-378 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Mannion]
12000 M. D. Uhen. 2005. A new genus and species of archaeocete whale from Mississippi. Southeastern Geology 43(3):157-172 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]