Safaga Phosphate Company mine, Safaga: Late/Upper Cretaceous, Egypt
collected 1946
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
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Plesiosauria indet.
(de Blainville 1835)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| Partial plesiosaurian limb bone, Hunterian Museum V.1647 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Elasmosauridae
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Elasmosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| Hunterian Museum V.1648 (partial dorsal vertebra) | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
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Pliosauroidea indet.
Welles 1943
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| Hunterian Museum V.1645–1646 (humerus head and femoral shaft) belonging to a 'pliosaurian' | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
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cf. Platecarpus indet.
Cope 1869
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| Hunterian Museum V.1650, a series of broken tooth crowns representative of Platecarpus of an allied genus | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Mosasauroidea indet.
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| spelled with current rank as Mosasauria | ||||||||||
| Hunterian Museum V.1649, mutilated mosasaurian vertebra | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Egypt |
| Coordinates: | 26.8° North, 33.6° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 8.7° North, 29.0° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 5-8 | ||
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Cretaceous | ||
| Age range of interval: | 100.50000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: Although the exact age of the Safaga phosphate beds yielding these remains is uncertain, there is no doubt that they belong to the Upper Cretaceous series |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | phosphatic not reported |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | 1946 |
| Collection method comments: Hunterian Museum, Glasgow (acquired 1966) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 140710 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Benson | Enterer: | R. Benson | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-03-15 06:28:37 | Last modified: | 2013-03-14 14:28:37 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-03-15 06:28:37 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 45603. | J. B. Delair and M. M. Ibrahim. 1967. The occurence of Upper Cretaceous pliosaurs in Egypt. Proceedings of the Egyptian Academy of Sciences 101-102 [R. Benson/R. Benson] |