Geziret el-Qarn: Priabonian, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Basilosauridae
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Zeuglodon sp.
Owen 1839
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Gingerich 1992 | ||||||
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= Dorudon atrox
Andrews 1906
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Gingerich 2010 | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Egypt | State/province: | Fayum |
| Coordinates: | 29.5° North, 30.6° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 24.8° North, 26.6° 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: | 37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Birket Qarun |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gypsiferous claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: soft gypsiferous clays | |
| Environment: | paralic indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Geziret el Qarn | ||
| Database number: | 74739 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-08-27 17:58:10 | Last modified: | 2010-07-14 17:10:20 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-08-27 17:58:10 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 33108. | W. B. Dames. 1883. Über eine tertiäre Wirbelthierfauna von der westlichen Insel des Birket-el-Qurun im Fajum (Aegypten). Sitzungsberichte der Königlich-preussichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin 6:129-153 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 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] |