Wadi Hitan ZV-74 (Eocene of Egypt)

Also known as WH-74

Where: Fayum, Egypt (29.3° N, 30.1° E: paleocoordinates 24.6° N, 26.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Birket Qarun Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Age after Underwood et al. 2011, PaleoDB ref 43835.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone and marl

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: soft parts

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: I. S. Zalmout and P. D. Gingerich. 2012. Late Eocene sea cows (Mammalia, Sirenia) from Wadi al Hitan in the western desert of Fayum, Egypt. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 37:1-158 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 175726: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 05.01.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Basilosaurus cetoides Owen 1839 whale
Angiospermae
 Alismatales - Cymodoceaceae
Thalassodendron sp. den Hartog 1970