Underwood 2: Lutetian - Bartonian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Leidybatis sp. Cappetta 1986
Chondrichthyes - Rhinopristiformes - Pristidae
Anoxypristis sp. White and Moy-Thomas 1941
Propristis sp.
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Galeocerdidae
Galeocerdo sp. Müller and Henle 1837
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Abdounia sp. Cappetta 1980
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Carcharhinidae
cf. Carcharhinus sp. de Blainville 1816
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt
Coordinates: 29.0° North, 30.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.2° North, 25.3° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Key time interval:Lutetian - Bartonian
Age range of interval:47.80000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Midawara
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: near base of thick glauconite, ?25m below top of Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: 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
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:137537
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-12-18 02:38:14 Last modified:2012-12-17 11:21:11
Access level:authorizer only Released:2017-12-18 02:38:14
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
43835. 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]