Underwood 20: Priabonian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Misrichthyes stromeri
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
Hemipristis sp. Agassiz 1835
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Abdounia sp. Cappetta 1980
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
Galeocerdo sp. Müller and Henle 1837
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Rhizoprionodon sp. Whitley 1929
or Sphyrna sp.
Negaprion aff. frequens
Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Macrorhizodus praecursor (Leriche 1905)
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Alopiidae
Alopias sp. Rafinesque 1810
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Carcharocles sokolovi
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Carchariidae
"Carcharias" aff. twiggsensis
Chondrichthyes - Rhinopristiformes - Pristidae
Propristis sp.
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
? Burnhamia sp. Cappetta 1976
? Eoplinthicus sp. Cappetta and Stringer 2002
"Myliobatis" sp. Cuvier 1816
sp. 2
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Aetobatidae
Aetobatus sp. Blainville 1816
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt
Coordinates: 29.3° North, 30.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.6° North, 26.0° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Priabonian
Age range of interval:38.00000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Birket Qarun
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: top of lowest sand body
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: open marine mudstones
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:137556
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-12-18 03:08:42 Last modified:2012-12-17 10:19:45
Access level:authorizer only Released:2017-12-18 03:08:42
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]