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] | |
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] |