Garet el-Esh: Priabonian, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Anomiidae
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Carolia sp.
Cantraine 1838
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Gingerich 1992 | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella sp.
Lamarck 1799
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Gingerich 1992 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Basilosauridae
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Prozeuglodon stromeri n. sp.
Kellogg 1928
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Gingerich 1992 | ||||||
synonym of Dorudon atrox | |||||||
Saghacetus osiris
(Dames 1894)
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Gingerich 1992 | ||||||
Zeuglodon osiris
Dames 1894
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1 specimen | ||||||
= Stromerius nidensis n. gen., n. sp.
Gingerich 2007
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Gingerich 2007 | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Egypt | State/province: | Fayum |
Coordinates: | 29.6° North, 30.6° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 24.9° North, 26.5° 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: | Qasr el-Sagha | Member: | Temple |
Stratigraphic resolution: | member |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: double limey hard bed | |
Environment: | lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal |
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: | 74740 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2007-08-27 18:09:15 | Last modified: | 2012-08-22 10:19:50 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-08-27 18:09:15 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
11951. | E. Stromer. 1903. Zeuglodon-Reste aus dem Oberen Mitteleocän des Fajum. Beiträge Paläontologie und Geologie Österreich-Ungarns und des Orients 15:65-100 [M. Uhen/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] |
26587 | P. D. Gingerich. 2007. Stromerius nidensis, New Archaeocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) From The Upper Eocene Qasr El-Sagha Formation, Fayum, Egypt. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, The University of Michigan 31(13):363-378 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Mannion] | |
33106 | P. D. Gingerich. 2010. Cetacea. In L. Werdelin & W. J. Sanders (ed.), Cenozoic Mammals of Africa 873-899 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
26775 | G. E. Pilleri. 1991. Betrachtugen über das gehirn der Archeoceti (Mammalia, Cetacea) aus dem Fayum Ägyptens. Investigations on Cetacea 23:193-211 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Alroy] |