Yale Moeritherium Locality: Priabonian, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Moeritheriidae
Moeritherium lyonsi Andrews 1901
1 individual
YPM 18102, associated partial skull and skeleton
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt State/province:Fayum
Coordinates: 29.5° North, 30.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.2° North, 32.0° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
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: 37.71 - 33.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Qasr el Sagha Member:Dir Abu Lifa
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Lithology description: Dir Abu Lifa Member dominated by cross-bedded sandstone and mudrock sequences
Environment:marginal marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:YPM
Metadata
Also known as:'61 Moeritherium Locality
Database number:181554
Authorizer:P. Holroyd Enterer:P. Holroyd
Modifier:P. Holroyd Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-09-15 19:28:36 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2016-09-15 19:28:36
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
60370. P. A. Holroyd, E. L. Simons, T. M. Bown, P. D. Polly, and M. J. Kraus. 1996. New records of terrestrial mammals from the upper Eocene Qasr el Sagha Formation, Fayum Depression, Egypt. Palaeovertebrata 25(2-4):175-192 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/M. Uhen]