Dimeh SW: Priabonian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Basilosaurus isis (Andrews 1904)
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt
Coordinates: 29.5° North, 30.6° 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:38.00000 - 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:sand shoal
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:79678
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-03-17 16:53:19 Last modified:2010-07-14 17:15:18
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-03-17 16:53:19
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:

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]
33106 P. D. Gingerich. 2010. Cetacea. In L. Werdelin & W. J. Sanders (ed.), Cenozoic Mammals of Africa 873-899 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]