Also known as Fayum "upper sequence"; Yale Quarry I
Where: Fayum, Egypt (29.5° N, 30.6° E: paleocoordinates 26.1° N, 27.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Jebel Qatrani Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
• Quarry I is in the "upper sequence" (there are two general fossil producing levels in the Jebel Qatrani, the "upper" and the "lower" sequences).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone and mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1962, 1989
Collection methods: quarrying,
• discovered in 1962 by a Yale expedition
Primary reference: E. L. Simons. 1965. New fossil apes from Egypt and the initial differentiation of Hominoidea. Nature 205:135-139 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 12954: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 12.01.2002, edited by Jill Wertheim, John Alroy, Mark Uhen, K. Christopher Beard, Pauline Coster, Philip Mannion, Terri Cleary, Patricia Holroyd and Grace Varnham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia | |
Varanidae indet.13 Hardwicke and Gray 1824 monitor lizard YPM 57012, nearly complete posterior presacral vertebra
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Mammalia | |
Cleopatrodon robusta n. sp.1
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Philisis sphingis n. gen. n. sp.2
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Bothriogenys fraasi9 Schmidt 1913 anthracothere DPC 6207, 7730, 10677, 11416, 13562, 13570 and 16633
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"Pterodontinae "sp. A"" = Hyainailourinae4
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"Paraphiomys simonsi n. sp." = Monamys simonsi16
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"Phiomys aff. paraphiomyoides" = Neophiomys paraphiomyoides16
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Phiocricetomys minutus n. gen. n. sp.16
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Metaphiomys beadnelli n. gen. n. sp.6
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Gaudeamus aegyptius n. gen. n. sp.16
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Aegyptopithecus zeuxis n. gen. n. sp., "Aeolopithecus chirobates n. gen. n. sp." = Propliopithecus chirobates
Aegyptopithecus zeuxis n. gen. n. sp. Simons 1965 monkey
"Aeolopithecus chirobates n. gen. n. sp." = Propliopithecus chirobates Simons 1965 monkey | |
Apidium phiomense Osborn 1908 monkey | |
Qatranilestes oligocaenus n. gen. n. sp.10
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Thyrohyrax domorictus5 Meyer 1973 hyrax YPM and CGM specimens; the most common hyracoid of the upper sequence, especially at Quarries I and M
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Titanohyrax angustidens n. sp.8
Titanohyrax angustidens n. sp.8 Rasmussen and Simons 1988 hyrax originally entered as "Titanohyrax augustidens"
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