Underwood 6: Lutetian - Bartonian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Anoxyprisitis sp.
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Rhizoprionodon sp. Whitley 1929
cf. Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Abdounia sp. Cappetta 1980
Chondrichthyes - Rhinopristiformes - Pristidae
Propristis sp.
Pristis lathami Galeotti 1837
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
"Rhinoptera" sp. Cuvier 1829
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 - 37.71000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Midawara
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: 8 m 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:137541
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-12-18 02:42:24 Last modified:2012-12-17 11:23:44
Access level:authorizer only Released:2017-12-18 02:42:24
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]