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