WH-224: Lutetian, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Cetacea indet.
Brisson 1762
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Sirenia
- Protosirenidae
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Protosiren smithae
Domning and Gingerich 1994
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Egypt |
| Coordinates: | 29.2° North, 30.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 21.6° North, 25.5° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Lutetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Lutetian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 47.80000 - 41.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Midawara | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: top of the Midawara Formation | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | glauconitic sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: bioturbated glauconitic sands | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 140129 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-03-02 06:36:02 | Last modified: | 2013-03-01 13:36:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-03-02 06:36:02 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 45230. | I. S. Zalmout and P. D. Gingerich. 2012. Late Eocene sea cows (Mammalia, Sirenia) from Wadi al Hitan in the western desert of Fayum, Egypt. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 37:1-158 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |