Wadi Hitan ZV-74: Priabonian, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae
- Alismatales
- Cymodoceaceae
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Thalassodendron sp.
den Hartog 1970
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Basilosauridae
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Basilosaurus cetoides
(Owen 1839)
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1 specimen | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Egypt | State/province: | Fayum |
Coordinates: | 29.3° North, 30.1° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 24.6° North, 26.0° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
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: Age after Underwood et al. 2011, PaleoDB ref 43835. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandstone |
Secondary lithology: | marl |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | coastal indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,soft parts |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | WH-74 | ||
Database number: | 175726 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2016-01-05 16:33:41 | Last modified: | 2016-01-05 16:33:41 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-01-05 16:33:41 |
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] |