Um El Ghanayim, bed 13: Ypresian, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Nautilida
- Hercoglossidae
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Cimomia sp.
Conrad 1866
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Geography
| Country: | Egypt |
| Coordinates: | 25.9° North, 30.7° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 16.0° North, 25.5° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Ypresian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Ypresian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 56.00000 - 47.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | El Rufuf |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal lithified cherty/siliceous "limestone" |
| Lithology description: Nummulitic cherty limestone | |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Repository: Al-Azhar University Geological Museum | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 199924 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2019-02-20 23:10:53 | Last modified: | 2019-02-20 23:10:53 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-02-20 23:10:53 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 67989. | A. G. A. Hewaidy, G. M. El Qot, and E. S. M. Moneer. 2019. Campanian-early Eocene cephalopods from Kharga Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt. Annales de Paléontologie 105:45-61 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |