Gebel el Dist north (7n): Early/Lower Cenomanian, Egypt
collected by Markgraf 1912
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Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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cf. Elaphrosaurus bambergi
Janensch 1920
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1 specimen | ||||||
= Tetanurae indet.
Gauthier 1986
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Rauhut and Carrano 2016 | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Egypt | State/province: | Matruh |
Coordinates: | 28.4° North, 28.9° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 8.1° North, 23.7° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
Altitude: | 113 meters | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Cenomanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 5 |
Key time interval: | Early/Lower Cenomanian | ||
Age range of interval: | 99.60000 - 93.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Baharîje | ||||
Local section: | Gebel el Dist | Local bed: | 7n | ||
Local order: | top to bottom | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: also known as Bahariya Formation |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | gray,yellow sandstone |
Secondary lithology: | ferruginous sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: whitish-gray to yellowish, clayey, gypsum-free sandstone, below a cover of 30 cm of ferruginous sandstone and 1 m of hard clay | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Disassociated major elements: | all |
Fragmentation: | frequent |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Collectors: | Markgraf | Collection dates: | 1912 |
Metadata
Database number: | 51743 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-06-15 13:52:50 | Last modified: | 2022-03-01 10:01:17 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-06-15 13:52:50 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
13775. | ETE | E. Stromer. 1934. Ergebnisse der Forschungsreisen Prof. E. Stromers in den Wüsten Ägyptens. II. Wirbeltierreste der Baharîje-Stufe (unterstes Cenoman). 13. Dinosauria [Results of the expeditions of Professor E. Stromer in the Egyptian deserts. II. Vertebrate animal remains from the Baharîje bed (lowest Cenomanian). 13. Dinosauria]. Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Abteilung, Neue Folge 22:1-79 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
80668 | O. W. M. Rauhut and M. T. Carrano. 2016. The theropod dinosaur Elaphrosaurus bambergi Janensch, 1920, from the Late Jurassic of Tendaguru, Tanzania. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 178(3):546-610 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |