Garet Gehannam: Priabonian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Zeuglodon sp. Owen 1839
Gingerich 1992
    = Basilosaurus isis Andrews 1904
Gingerich 2010
Reptilia - Pelecaniformes - Pelecanidae
Eopelecanus aegyptiacus n. gen., n. sp. El Adli et al. 2021
El Adli et al. 2021 1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt State/province:Fayum
Coordinates: 29.3° North, 30.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.6° North, 26.1° 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:Birket Qarun
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: early Priabonian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:yellow claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: yellow marly clays
Environment:offshore shelf
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:74738
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-08-27 17:53:05 Last modified:2022-08-17 12:09:07
Access level:the public Released:2007-08-27 17:53:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

26772. H. J. L. Beadnell. 1905. The topography and geology of the Fayum Province of Egypt. Survey Department of Egypt, Cairo 1-101 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

11956 R. A. Dart. 1923. The brain of the Zeuglodontidae (Cetacea). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 42(33):615-654 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
77069 J. J. El Adli, J. A. Wilson Mantilla, M. S. M. Antar and P. D. Gingerich. 2021. The earliest recorded fossil pelican, recovered from the late Eocene of Wadi Al-Hitan, Egypt. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 41(1):e1903910 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Mannion]
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]