Birket-el-Qurun beds: Priabonian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Tomistoma kerunense n. sp. Andrews 1905
Andrews 1905
CGM 9350 - type (skull)
Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Prozeuglodon atrox n. gen., n. sp. Andrews 1906
1 specimen
recombined as Dorudon atrox
Zeuglodon intermedius n. sp. Dart 1923
Dart 1923 1 specimen
synonym of Dorudon atrox
Basilosaurus isis (Andrews 1904)
Gingerich 2010
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt State/province:Fayum
Coordinates: 29.3° North, 30.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.6° North, 26.1° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
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: possibly from the Gehannam Formation (Gingerich, 1992)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: barrier bar
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:some
Associated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Wadi Hitan, Zeuglodon Valley
Database number:83938
Authorizer:M. Uhen, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Uhen, P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-09-09 12:59:12 Last modified:2014-12-03 10:04:12
Access level:the public Released:2008-09-09 12:59:12
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11955. C. W. Andrews. 1906. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Tertiary Vertebrata of Fayum, Egypt 1-324 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

46727 C. W. Andrews. 1905. Notes on some new Crocodilia from the Eocene of Egypt. Geological Magazine 2(11):481-484 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
11956 R. A. Dart. 1923. The brain of the Zeuglodontidae (Cetacea). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 42(33):615-654 [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]