El Kenissa: Priabonian, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Basilosauridae
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Dorudon atrox
(Andrews 1906)
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Egypt |
Coordinates: | 29.5° North, 30.7° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 24.8° North, 26.6° 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: | 37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Birket Qarun | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: early Priabonian |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | offshore indet. |
Geology comments: The Birket Qarun Formation exhibits an offshore barrier complex on the continental 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: | 79676 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | S. Strother | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2008-03-17 16:36:19 | Last modified: | 2010-08-09 19:42:26 |
Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2009-03-17 16:36:19 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
11950. | W. Dames. 1894. Über Zeuglodonten aus Aegypten und die Beziehungen der Archaeoceten zu den Übrigen Cetaceen. Palaeontologische Abhandlungen 1(5):189-221 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
33294 | H. L. Fierstine and P. D. Gingerich. 2009. A Second and more complete rostrum of XIPHIORHYNCHUS AEGYPTIACUS Weiler, 1929, (Pericformes: XIPHIODEI: XIPHIIDAE: XIPHIORHYNCHINAE), from the Birket Qarun Formation, Upper Eocene,Egypt. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(2):589-593 [M. Uhen/S. Strother] | |
33106 | P. D. Gingerich. 2010. Cetacea. In L. Werdelin & W. J. Sanders (ed.), Cenozoic Mammals of Africa 873-899 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |