Gebel el Dist north (7n): Early/Lower Cenomanian, Egypt
collected by Markgraf 1912

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
cf. Elaphrosaurus bambergi Janensch 1920
1 specimen
    = Tetanurae indet. Gauthier 1986
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]