Underwood 30: Priabonian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Misrichthyes stromeri
1 specimen
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Negaprion aff. frequens
2 specimens
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Macrorhizodus praecursor (Leriche 1905)
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt
Coordinates: 29.3° North, 30.0° 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:37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Birket Qarun
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 8 m above Camp White Layer
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:137572
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-12-18 04:02:25 Last modified:2012-12-17 11:02:25
Access level:authorizer only Released:2017-12-18 04:02:25
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]