Bir Sahara 13: Pleistocene, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Homoioceras antiquus
2 individuals
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelus thomasi Pomel 1893
3 individuals
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus asinus Linnaeus 1758
1 individual
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Ceratotherium simum (Burchell 1821)
12 individuals
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt
Coordinates: 22.9° North, 28.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.9° North, 28.5° East
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Quaternary - Quaternary *Epoch:Middle - Late/Upper Pleistocene - Middle - Late/Upper Pleistocene
Key time interval:Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: 2632780 +- 900 on Melanoides radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: black sandstone; thick mat of carbonized root casts
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: lake_margin ETE event: ., ETE env comment: near shore environment
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying
Collection size:18 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 483, 482, 479, 478, 477, ; ETE museum list:
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 695, Bir Sahara 13,
Database number:21876
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer, J. Damuth
Modifier:M. Kosnik
Created:1997-05-09 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-25 21:59:02
Access level:the public Released:1997-05-09 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
5221.ETE 933F. Wendorf and R. Schild. 1980. Prehistory of the Eastern Sahara 1-414 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen]