Tamariskenbucht: Priabonian, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Basilosauridae
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Stromerius nidensis
Gingerich 2007
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Gingerich 2007 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Geography
| Country: | Egypt |
| Coordinates: | 29.7° North, 30.8° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 25.0° North, 26.7° 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: | Qasr el-Sagha | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: middle Priabonian | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | lagoonal |
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: | 79699 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-03-18 10:19:36 | Last modified: | 2010-07-14 18:04:48 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-03-18 10:19:36 |
| 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:
| 26770 | M. Blanckenhorn. 1903. Neue geologisch-stratigraphische Beobachtungen in Aegypten. Sitzungsberichte der Mathematisch-physikalischen Classe der Koniglichen bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munchen 32:353-433 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 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] |
| 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] |