Dir Abu Lifa: Late/Upper Eocene, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Oculinidae
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Astrohelia sp.
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1857
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Gingerich 1992 | ||||||
synonym of Astrhelia | |||||||
Hydrozoa
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Kerunia sp.
Mayer-Eymar 1899
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Gingerich 1992 | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Exogyra sp.
Say 1820
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Gingerich 1992 | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Gingerich 1992 | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Anomiidae
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Carolia placunoides
Cantraine 1838
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Gingerich 1992 | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella sp.
Lamarck 1799
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Gingerich 1992 | ||||||
Osteichthyes
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Osteichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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Gingerich 1992 | ||||||
Reptilia
- Crocodilia
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Crocodilia indet.
Owen 1842
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Gingerich 1992 | ||||||
spelled with current rank as Crocodylia | |||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Moeritheriidae
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Moeritherium sp.
Andrews 1901
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Gingerich 1992 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Sirenia
- Dugongidae
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Eotheroides sp.
Palmer 1899
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1 specimen | ||||||
Eosiren sp.
Andrews 1902
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Gingerich 1992 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Basilosauridae
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Zeuglodon sp.
Owen 1839
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Gingerich 1992 | ||||||
synonym of Basilosaurus | |||||||
Echinoidea
- Echinolampadoida
- Echinolampadidae
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Echinolampas crameri
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Gingerich 1992 | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Egypt |
Coordinates: | 29.6° North, 30.7° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 24.9° North, 26.6° East |
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Eocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 37.20000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: skull is from bed 16 of Beadnell |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Lithology description: no lithology description | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 40516 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2004-06-24 11:38:08 | Last modified: | 2010-10-28 16:36:47 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-06-24 11:38:08 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
10903. | R. H. Reinhart. 1959. A review of the Sirenia and Desmostylia. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 36(1):1-146 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
6026 | 5% 17360 | P. D. Gingerich. 1992. Marine Mammals (Cetacean and Sirenia) from the Eocene of Gebel Mokattam and Fayum, Egypt: Stratigraphy, Age, and Paleoenvironments. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 30:1-84 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |