Qasr Qarun, north: 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, 30.4° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 24.9° North, 26.3° 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 |
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: | 79680 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2008-03-17 17:16:31 | Last modified: | 2012-08-22 13:58:34 |
Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2009-03-17 17:16:31 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
8335. | R. Kellogg. 1936. A Review of the Archaeoceti. Carnegie Institution of Washington 482:1-366 [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] |
33106 | P. D. Gingerich. 2010. Cetacea. In L. Werdelin & W. J. Sanders (ed.), Cenozoic Mammals of Africa 873-899 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |