Gebel Duwi, Egypt: Early/Lower Eocene, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella aegyptiaca
Mayer-Eymar 1895
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Buccinidae
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Cominella mayeri
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea multicostata
Deshayes 1832
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recombined as Cubitostrea multicostata | ||||||||||
Ostrea multicostata multicostata | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Lucinidae
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Lucina thebaica
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Saxolucina edita
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original and current combination Claibornites (Saxolucina) | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Pitar aegyptiaca
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Cytherea nilana
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Cytherea productula
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Ungulinidae
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Cycladicama chiesai
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Psammobiidae
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Gari sp.
Schumacher 1817
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"(s.l.) sp." - originally entered as "Gari (s.l.) sp." | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Paraglans aegyptiaca
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Egypt | State/province: | Quseir |
Coordinates: | 26.1° North, 34.1° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 16.1° North, 28.6° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Stage: | Ypresian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
*Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Early/Lower Eocene |
Key time interval: | Early/Lower Eocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 55.80000 - 48.60000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Thebes | ||
Local section: | Gebel Duwi | Local bed: | a |
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | gray "carbonate" |
Secondary lithology: | chert |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 3298 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky | Enterer: | K. Layou |
Modifier: | C. Visaggi | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 1999-07-29 08:40:57 | Last modified: | 2004-03-11 16:25:05 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-11-20 13:53:18 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
181. | A. Strougo and R. A. Abul-Nasr. 1981. On the age of the Thebes Formation of Gebel duwi, Quseir Area, Egypt. Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie-Monatshefte 1981(1):49-53 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou] |