Kom Ombo Fatira: Pleistocene, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Actinopteri
- Centropomidae
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Lates niloticus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Geography
| Country: | Egypt |
| Coordinates: | 24.8° North, 33.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 24.7° North, 32.9° 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
| Formation: | Gabal Silsila | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: 6615000-10500 BC; age based on dates for the Gabal Silsila Formation radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | siltstone |
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: Nile silts and sands | |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: ab_chan_fill ETE event: ., ETE env comment: abandoned Nile Channels | |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying |
| Collection size: | 0 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 487, 485, 483, 482, 479, 478, 477, 454, 81, ; ETE museum list: | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 708, Kom Ombo Fatira, | ||
| Database number: | 21889 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer |
| Modifier: | M. Kosnik | ||
| Created: | 1997-05-05 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-25 21:59:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1997-05-05 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 5224. | ETE 936 | C. S. Churcher. 1974. Relationships of the Late Pleistocene Vertebrate Fauna from Kom Ombo, Upper Egypt. Annals of the Geological Survey of Egypt 4:363-384 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |