Where: Egypt (29.2° N, 25.7° E: paleocoordinates 28.1° N, 24.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• Precise stratigraphic provenance is uncertain, but it is likely to be from the lower Miocene Moghra (=Moghara) Formation (Hamilton 1973; Burke and Mannion 2023)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH
• Purchased from Lady Moon in 1920
Primary reference: W. R. Hamilton. 1973. A lower Miocene mammalian fauna from Siwa, Egypt. Palaeontology 16(2):275-281 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 123296: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 18.01.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Pristis sp. Linck 1790 sawfish | |
Reptilia | |
"Tomistoma dowsoni" = Sutekhsuchus dowsoni
"Tomistoma dowsoni" = Sutekhsuchus dowsoni Fourtau 1918 crocodilian NHMUK PV R 4769 - near-complete skull
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