West end of Birket Qarun: Priabonian, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Basilosauridae
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Zeuglodon isis n. sp.
Andrews 1904
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recombined as Basilosaurus isis | |||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Egypt |
Coordinates: | 29.5° North, 30.4° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 24.8° North, 26.4° East |
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
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: | formation | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: early Priabonian |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: marls, shales, sandstones, and limestone | |
Environment: | coastal indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 65974 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2006-09-26 11:45:35 | Last modified: | 2010-07-14 17:26:42 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-09-26 11:45:35 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
11952. | C. W. Andrews. 1904. Further notes on the mammals of the Eocene of Egypt. Part III. Geological Magazine, London Ser. 5 1:211-215 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
26773 | E. Fraas. 1906. Wustenreise eines Geologen in Agypten. Kosmos, Handweiser fur Naturfreunde, Stuttgart 3:263-269 [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] |