Wadi Hitan ZV-74: Priabonian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae - Alismatales - Cymodoceaceae
Thalassodendron sp. den Hartog 1970
Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Basilosaurus cetoides (Owen 1839)
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]