UCMP V6789: Priabonian, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Basilosauridae
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Geography
| Country: | Egypt |
| Coordinates: | 29.3° North, 30.1° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 19.0° North, 31.6° 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: | 79682 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | P. Holroyd | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-03-17 17:40:42 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-03-17 17:40:42 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 26775. | G. E. Pilleri. 1991. Betrachtugen über das gehirn der Archeoceti (Mammalia, Cetacea) aus dem Fayum Ägyptens. Investigations on Cetacea 23:193-211 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 33294 | H. L. Fierstine and P. D. Gingerich. 2009. A Second and more complete rostrum of XIPHIORHYNCHUS AEGYPTIACUS Weiler, 1929, (Pericformes: XIPHIODEI: XIPHIIDAE: XIPHIORHYNCHINAE), from the Birket Qarun Formation, Upper Eocene,Egypt. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(2):589-593 [M. Uhen/S. Strother] | |
| 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] |
| 33106 | P. D. Gingerich. 2010. Cetacea. In L. Werdelin & W. J. Sanders (ed.), Cenozoic Mammals of Africa 873-899 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |