Underwood 33: Priabonian, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Misrichthyes stromeri
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12 specimens | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Lamnidae
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Macrorhizodus praecursor
(Leriche 1905)
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6 specimens | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Alopiidae
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Alopias sp.
Rafinesque 1810
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Carchariidae
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"Carcharias" aff. twiggsensis
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4 specimens | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Carcharhinidae
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Carcharhinus sp.
de Blainville 1816
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7 specimens | |||||||||
Negaprion aff. frequens
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20 specimens | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Rhinopristiformes
- Pristidae
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Pristidae indet.
Bonaparte 1838
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Anoxypristis sp.
White and Moy-Thomas 1941
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Myliobatidae
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"Myliobatis" sp.
Cuvier 1816
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3 specimens | |||||||||
sp. 1, sp. 2 | ||||||||||
? Eoplinthicus sp.
Cappetta and Stringer 2002
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2 specimens | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Egypt |
Coordinates: | 29.3° North, 30.1° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 24.6° North, 26.0° East |
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
Key time interval: | Priabonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Gehannam | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: mudstones ?equivalent to sandstones above Camp White Layer |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | mudstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: open marine mudstones | |
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: | 137575 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2012-12-18 04:05:10 | Last modified: | 2012-12-17 11:05:10 |
Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2017-12-18 04:05:10 |
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] |