Kaninah: Middle Eocene, Yemen
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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? Rympanotonus sp.
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Mammalia
- Sirenia
- Sirenia
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? Sirenia indet.
Illiger 1811
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Reptilia
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? Atoposauridae indet.
(Gervais 1871)
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Stevens et al. 2013 | |||||||||
| An isolated tooth crown; a fragmentary anterior caudal vertebra; two partial left mid-dorsal or caudal dorsal ribs; a partial left ilium; a partial right paramedian dorsal osteoderm; a gastral (ventral) osteoderm | ||||||||||
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= Eusuchia indet.
Huxley 1875
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Tennant et al. 2016 | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Raetomyidae
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? Raetomya sp.
Newton 1919
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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? Caestocorbula sp.
Vincent 1910
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Angiospermae
- Araceae
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Araceae indet.
de Jussieu 1789
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Angiospermae
- Nymphaeales
- Nymphaeaceae
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? Nymphaeaceae indet.
Salisbury 1805
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Angiospermae
- Magnoliales
- Annonaceae
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Anonaspermum sp.
Ball 1931
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Geography
| Country: | Yemen |
| Coordinates: | 14.5° North, 48.4° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 4.3° North, 38.9° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2-3 | ||
| Key time interval: | Middle Eocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 47.80000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Kaninah |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | siltstone |
| Secondary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marginal marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,permineralized,original phosphate,replaced with silica |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 47928 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Uhen, P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-03-08 07:01:26 | Last modified: | 2014-02-17 06:01:10 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-03-08 07:01:26 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 12833. | M. L. As-Saruri, P. J. Whybrow, and M. E. Collinson. 1999. Geology, fruits, seeds, and vertebrates (?Sirenia) from the Kaninah Formation (Middle Eocene), Republic of Yemen. Fossil Vertebrates of Arabia 443-453 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 50202 | N. J. Stevens, R. V. Hill, M. Al-Wosabi, A. Schulp, M. As-Saruri, F. Al-Nimey, L. A. Jolley Schulp-Stuip and P. O'Connor. 2013. A middle Eocene mesoeucrocodylian (Crocodyliformes) from the Kaninah Formation, Republic of Yemen. Geologos 19(3):175-183 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
| 59838 | J. P. Tennant, P. D. Mannion, and P. Upchurch. 2016. Evolutionary relationships and systematics of Atoposauridae (Crocodylomorpha: Neosuchia): implications for the rise of Eusuchia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 177:854-936 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |