Where: Egypt (26.8° N, 33.6° E: paleocoordinates 8.7° N, 29.0° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)
• Although the exact age of the Safaga phosphate beds yielding these remains is uncertain, there is no doubt that they belong to the Upper Cretaceous series
Environment/lithology: marine; phosphatic lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1946
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• Hunterian Museum, Glasgow (acquired 1966)
Primary reference: J. B. Delair and M. M. Ibrahim. 1967. The occurence of Upper Cretaceous pliosaurs in Egypt. Proceedings of the Egyptian Academy of Sciences 101-102 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 140710: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 15.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Pliosauroidea indet. Welles 1943 plesiosaur Hunterian Museum V.1645–1646 (humerus head and femoral shaft) belonging to a 'pliosaurian'
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cf. Platecarpus indet. Cope 1869 mosasaur Hunterian Museum V.1650, a series of broken tooth crowns representative of Platecarpus of an allied genus
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