Underwood 5: Lutetian - Bartonian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Misrichthyes sp.
Moerogaleus vitreodon
? Taeniura sp.
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Leptochariidae
Leptocharias sp. Müller and Henle 1837
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
Hemipristis sp. Agassiz 1835
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Crassescyliorhinus sp. Underwood and Ward 2008
Abdounia sp. Cappetta 1980
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Rhizoprionodon sp. Whitley 1929
cf. Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816
Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Brachaeluridae
Eostegostoma sp. Herman and Crochard 1977
Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Hemiscylliidae
Hemiscyllium sp. Smith 1837
Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Ginglymostomatidae
Nebrius blanckenhorni
Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes - Parascylliidae
? Pararhincodon sp. Herman 1975
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Macrorhizodus praecursor (Leriche 1905)
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Carchariidae
"Carcharias" aff. twiggsensis
Chondrichthyes - Torpediniformes - Narcinidae
Narcine sp. Henle 1834
Chondrichthyes - Rhinopristiformes - Pristidae
? Pristis sp. Linck 1790
Chondrichthyes - Rhinopristiformes - Rhynchobatidae
Rhynchobatus sp. Müller and Henle 1837
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Platyrhinidae
? Platyrhina sp. Müller and Henle 1838
? Platyrhinoidis sp. Garman 1880
Chondrichthyes
Odontorhytis aff. pappenheimi Bohm 1926
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae
Dasyatidae indet. Jordan 1888
Dasyatis sp. Rafinesque 1810
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
"Myliobatis" sp. Cuvier 1816
"Rhinoptera" sp. Cuvier 1829
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Aetobatidae
Aetobatus sp. Blainville 1816
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Gymnuridae
Ouledia sp. Cappetta 1986
Gymnura sp. Van Hasselt 1823
? Himantura sp. Müller and Henle 1837
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt
Coordinates: 29.1° North, 30.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.3° North, 25.3° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Key time interval:Lutetian - Bartonian
Age range of interval:47.80000 - 38.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Midawara
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: glauconitic mudstone seam, 10m below top of Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: glauconitic mudstone seam
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:137540
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-12-18 02:41:15 Last modified:2012-12-17 11:23:06
Access level:authorizer only Released:2017-12-18 02:41:15
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

43835. C. J. Underwood, D. J. Ward, C. King, S. M. Antar, I. S. Zalmout and P. D. Gingerich. 2011. Shark and ray faunas in the Middle and Late Eocene of the Fayum Area, Egypt. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 122(1):47-66 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]