Wadi Hitan ZV-98: 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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Dorudon atrox
(Andrews 1906)
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Egypt |
| Coordinates: | 29.3° North, 30.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 24.6° North, 26.0° 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: | 37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Birket Qarun |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | shoreface |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 125006 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-03-02 08:03:23 | Last modified: | 2012-03-01 15:03:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-03-02 08:03:23 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 10457. | M. D. Uhen. 2004. Form, Function, and Anatomy of Dorudon atrox (Mammalia, Cetacea): An Archaeocete from the Middle to Late Eocene of Egypt. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 34:1-222 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |