Garet el-Esh: Priabonian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Carolia sp. Cantraine 1838
Gingerich 1992
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
Gingerich 1992
Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Prozeuglodon stromeri n. sp. Kellogg 1928
Gingerich 1992
synonym of Dorudon atrox
Saghacetus osiris (Dames 1894)
Gingerich 1992
Zeuglodon osiris Dames 1894
1 specimen
    = Stromerius nidensis n. gen., n. sp. Gingerich 2007
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:

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]
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]