Yale Quarry K: Priabonian, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Moeritheriidae
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Moeritherium lyonsi
Andrews 1901
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3 specimens | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Egypt | State/province: | Fayum |
| Coordinates: | 29.5° North, 30.5° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 24.9° North, 26.5° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
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 | Member: | Dir Abu Lifa |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Lithology description: Dir Abu Lifa Member dominated by cross-bedded sandstone and mudrock sequences | |
| Environment: | marginal marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | YPM |
Metadata
| Database number: | 181552 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Holroyd | Enterer: | P. Holroyd | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-09-15 19:24:13 | Last modified: | 2016-09-15 19:24:13 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-09-15 19:24:13 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 60370. | P. A. Holroyd, E. L. Simons, T. M. Bown, P. D. Polly, and M. J. Kraus. 1996. New records of terrestrial mammals from the upper Eocene Qasr el Sagha Formation, Fayum Depression, Egypt. Palaeovertebrata 25(2-4):175-192 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/M. Uhen] |