South side of mouth, Wadi Gharandel: Burdigalian, Egypt
collected by Robert van Vleck Anderson 1921
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
|
Cephalopoda
- Nautilida
- Aturiidae
|
|||||||
|
Aturia sp.
Bronn 1838
|
|||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Egypt |
| Coordinates: | 29.3° North, 32.9° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 24.0° North, 33.3° East (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Burdigalian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Burdigalian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 20.45 - 15.98 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "lower beds of [the] Miocene series" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | white lithified "limestone" |
| Lithology description: light-colored (white mottled with brown) crystalline limestone | |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Robert van Vleck Anderson | Collection dates: | 1921 |
| Collection method comments: Repository: Stanford University | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 180423 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2016-07-16 11:36:29 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-07-16 11:36:29 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 59868. | A. K. Miller and H. R. Downs. 1950. Tertiary nautiloids of the Americas: supplement. Journal of Paleontology 24:1-18 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] |