Birket-el-Qurun beds: Priabonian, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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Tomistoma kerunense n. sp.
Andrews 1905
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Andrews 1905 | |||||||||
CGM 9350 - type (skull) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Basilosauridae
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Prozeuglodon atrox n. gen., n. sp.
Andrews 1906
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1 specimen | |||||||||
recombined as Dorudon atrox | ||||||||||
Zeuglodon intermedius n. sp.
Dart 1923
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Dart 1923 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
synonym of Dorudon atrox | ||||||||||
Basilosaurus isis
(Andrews 1904)
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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] |