Schweinfurth VII: Bartonian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Zeuglodon sp. Owen 1839
    = Basilosaurus sp. Harlan 1834
Gingerich 2010
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt
Coordinates: 30.0° North, 31.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.2° North, 26.6° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Bartonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Bartonian
Age range of interval:41.30000 - 38.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Giushi
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:open shallow subtidal
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:96950
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-07-14 13:51:54 Last modified:2019-11-20 12:22:07
Access level:the public Released:2010-07-14 13:51:54
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

29185. M. Blanckenhorn. 1900. Neus zur Geologie und Paleontologie Aegyptens. II. Das Palaeogne. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 52:403-479 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

33106 P. D. Gingerich. 2010. Cetacea. In L. Werdelin & W. J. Sanders (ed.), Cenozoic Mammals of Africa 873-899 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]