UCMP V6789: Priabonian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Dorudon atrox (Andrews 1906)
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt
Coordinates: 29.3° North, 30.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.6° North, 26.0° 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: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:79682
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:P. Holroyd Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-03-17 17:40:42 Last modified:2016-09-16 11:28:19
Access level:the public Released:2008-03-17 17:40:42
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

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]
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]