Where: Egypt (29.3° N, 30.0° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 19.0° N, 31.5° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Birket Qarun Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• top of second sand body
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; sandstone
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 137558: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.12.2012
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Physogaleus sp. Cappetta 1980 ground shark | |
Negaprion aff. frequens lemon shark
Negaprion ? amekiensis lemon shark
Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816 requiem shark
Abdounia sp. Cappetta 1980 requiem shark | |
Alopias sp. Rafinesque 1810 thresher shark | |
"Carcharias" aff. twiggsensis sand shark | |
Macrorhizodus praecursor Leriche 1905 mackerel shark | |
Anoxypristis sp. White and Moy-Thomas 1941 sawfish | |
"Rhinoptera" sp. Cuvier 1829 cownose ray | |
? Eoplinthicus sp. Cappetta and Stringer 2002 eagle ray
? Burnhamia sp. Cappetta 1976 eagle ray |