Gebel Hameier: Priabonian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Hydrozoa
Kerunia sp. Mayer-Eymar 1899
Blanckenhorn 1903
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea relli
Blanckenhorn 1903
Ostrea cloti
Blanckenhorn 1903
Ostrea fraasi Mayer-Eymar 1888
Blanckenhorn 1903
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Carolia sp. Cantraine 1838
Blanckenhorn 1903
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Psammobiidae
Macrosolen sp.
Blanckenhorn 1903
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina sp. Bruguière 1797
Blanckenhorn 1903
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
Blanckenhorn 1903
Mammalia - Sirenia
Sirenia indet. (Illiger 1811)
Blanckenhorn 1903
Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae
Eosiren libyca Andrews 1902
Gingerich 1992
It is not clear precisely where E. lybica was found. The description is "north of Birke Quarun" and Gebel Hameir is centrally located north of the lake. [entered as Eosiren lybica]
Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Saghacetus osiris (Dames 1894)
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt
Coordinates: 29.6° North, 30.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.9° North, 26.6° 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:Qasr el-Sagha Member:Temple
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: middle Priabonian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:lagoonal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:excellent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:49919
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:marine invertebrate,vertebrate
Created:2005-05-02 06:19:18 Last modified:2008-03-18 12:15:45
Access level:the public Released:2005-05-02 06:19:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

26784. E. Stromer. 1902. Bericht über eine von den Privatdozenten Dr. Max Blanckenhorn und Dr. Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach ausgeführte Reise nach Aegypten: Einleitung und Ein Schädel und Unterkiefer von Zeuglodon osiris Dames. Sitzungsberichte der mathematisch-physikalischen Classe der königlich bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 32:341-352 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/T. Liebrecht]

Secondary references:

26770 M. Blanckenhorn. 1903. Neue geologisch-stratigraphische Beobachtungen in Aegypten. Sitzungsberichte der Mathematisch-physikalischen Classe der Koniglichen bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munchen 32:353-433 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
60265% 17360P. D. Gingerich. 1992. Marine Mammals (Cetacean and Sirenia) from the Eocene of Gebel Mokattam and Fayum, Egypt: Stratigraphy, Age, and Paleoenvironments. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 30:1-84 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
33106 P. D. Gingerich. 2010. Cetacea. In L. Werdelin & W. J. Sanders (ed.), Cenozoic Mammals of Africa 873-899 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]