Dimeh: Priabonian, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Podocnemididae
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| Gaffney et al. 2002 | ||||||||||
| SMNS 12645. Exact horizon uncertain. Could also be from Qasr el Sagha formation. | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Basilosauridae
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| 1 specimen | ||||||||||
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= Masracetus markgrafi n. gen., n. sp.
Gingerich 2007
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Gingerich 2007 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Egypt |
| Coordinates: | 29.5° North, 30.7° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 19.2° North, 32.1° East (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
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: | Birket Qarun | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: early Priabonian | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | offshore indet. |
| Geology comments: The Birket Qarun Formation exhibits an offshore barrier complex on the continental shelf. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 79679 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen, D. Nicholson | Enterer: | M. Uhen, D. Nicholson |
| Modifier: | S. Strother | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-03-17 17:09:32 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2009-03-17 17:09:32 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 15430. | E. Stromer. 1908. Die Archaeoceti des Agyptischen Eozans. Beitrage zur Paleotologie un Geologie Osterreich-Ungarns un des Orients 21:108-177 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 59448 | E. S. Gaffney, D. D. Deblieux, E. L. Simons, M. R. Sánchez-Villagra, and A. Peter Meylan. 2002. Redescription of the skull of Dacquemys Williams, 1954, a podocnemidid side-necked turtle from the Late Eocene of Egypt. American Museum Novitates 3372:1-16 [D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson] | |
| 6026 | 5% 17360 | P. D. Gingerich. 1992. Marine Mammals (Cetacean and Sirenia) from the Eocene of Gebel Mokattam and Fayum, Egypt: Stratigraphy, Age, and Paleoenvironments. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 30:1-84 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
| 26587 | P. D. Gingerich. 2007. Stromerius nidensis, New Archaeocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) From The Upper Eocene Qasr El-Sagha Formation, Fayum, Egypt. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, The University of Michigan 31(13):363-378 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Mannion] | |
| 33106 | P. D. Gingerich. 2010. Cetacea. In L. Werdelin & W. J. Sanders (ed.), Cenozoic Mammals of Africa 873-899 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 8335 | R. Kellogg. 1936. A Review of the Archaeoceti. Carnegie Institution of Washington 482:1-366 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |