Gebel Hameier: Priabonian, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Hydrozoa
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Kerunia sp.
Mayer-Eymar 1899
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Blanckenhorn 1903 | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea relli
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Blanckenhorn 1903 | |||||||||
Ostrea cloti
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Blanckenhorn 1903 | |||||||||
Ostrea fraasi
Mayer-Eymar 1888
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Blanckenhorn 1903 | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Anomiidae
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Carolia sp.
Cantraine 1838
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Blanckenhorn 1903 | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Psammobiidae
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Macrosolen sp.
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Blanckenhorn 1903 | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Lucinidae
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Lucina sp.
Bruguière 1797
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Blanckenhorn 1903 | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella sp.
Lamarck 1799
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Blanckenhorn 1903 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Sirenia
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Sirenia indet.
(Illiger 1811)
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Blanckenhorn 1903 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Sirenia
- Dugongidae
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Eosiren libyca
Andrews 1902
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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
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Saghacetus osiris
(Dames 1894)
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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] | |
6026 | 5% 17360 | P. 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] |