Underwood 2 (Eocene to of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (29.0° N, 30.1° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 16.7° N, 31.8° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Midawara Formation, Lutetian to Lutetian (47.8 - 38.0 Ma)

• near base of thick glauconite, ?25m below top of Formation

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; glauconitic sandstone

• alternating glauconitic sandstones, mudstones and micitic and bioclastic limestones (e.g. Strougo, 2008). At least one thick and several thin glauconitic units are present and it is these that contain the rich vertebrate faunas

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

Primary reference: C. J. Underwood, D. J. Ward, C. King, S. M. Antar, I. S. Zalmout and P. D. Gingerich. 2011. Shark and ray faunas in the Middle and Late Eocene of the Fayum Area, Egypt. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 122(1):47-66 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 137537: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.12.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Chondrichthyes
 Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
Abdounia sp., cf. Carcharhinus sp.
Abdounia sp. Cappetta 1980 requiem shark
cf. Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816 requiem shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
Galeocerdo sp.
Galeocerdo sp. Müller and Henle 1837 tiger shark
 Rhinopristiformes - Pristidae
Anoxypristis sp., Propristis sp.
Anoxypristis sp. White and Moy-Thomas 1941 sawfish
 Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Leidybatis sp.
Leidybatis sp. Cappetta 1986 eagle ray