Wadi Moghra: MN 4, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Ciconiiformes
- Ciconiidae
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Leptoptilos sp.
Lesson 1831
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Miller et al. 1997 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Reptilia
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Crocodilus lloydi n. sp.
Fourtau 1918
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recombined as Rimasuchus lloydi | ||||||||||
CGM 15597 (incomplete cranium and mandible); topotype - NHMUK unnumbered (nearly complete skull) | ||||||||||
Gavialis sp.
Oppel 1811
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Tomistoma dowsoni n. sp.
Fourtau 1918
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Reptilia
- Varanidae
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Varanus sp.
Merrem 1820
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Georgalis et al. 2020 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Podocnemididae
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Podocnemis aegyptiaca
Andrews 1900
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recombined as Apeshemys aegyptiaca | ||||||||||
Latentemys plowdeni n. gen., n. sp.
Gaffney et al. 2011
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Gaffney et al. 2011 | |||||||||
BMNH R.11998; type horizon of Moghara Fm. conjectural | ||||||||||
Podocnemis bramlyi n. sp.
Fourtau 1918
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nomen dubium belonging to Podocnemis | ||||||||||
Mogharemys blanckenhorni n. gen., n. sp.
(Dacque 1912)
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Gaffney et al. 2011 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
BMNH R.8440, holotype skull | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Namibchersus cf. namaquensis
(Stromer 1926)
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Zonneveld et al. 2021 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Material.—DPC 6443, a fragment of the anterior plastron consisting of both epiplastra and the anterior end of the entoplastron | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionyx senckenbergianus
Reinach 1903
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nomen dubium belonging to Trionychidae | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Zygolophodon aegyptensis n. sp.
Sanders and Miller 2002
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Sanders and Miller 2002 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
Mastodon spenceri n. sp.
Fourtau 1918
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Choerolophodontidae
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Afrochoerodon kisumuensis
(Picford 2001)
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Sanders and Miller 2002 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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cf. Archaeobelodon sp.
Tassy 1984
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Sanders and Miller 2002 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Gomphotherium angustidens
Burmeister 1837
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Sanders and Miller 2002 | 9 specimens | ||||||||
subspecies libycum | ||||||||||
Mastodon angustidens
Cuvier 1806
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recombined as Tetrabelodon angustidens | ||||||||||
var. libyca | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Creodonta
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Buhakia moghraensis n. gen., n. sp.
Morlo et al. 2007
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Morlo et al. 2007 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Megistotherium osteothlastes
Savage 1973
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Morlo et al. 2007 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
Hyainailouros fortaui n. sp.
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Morlo et al. 2007 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
"Hyaena sp." of Fourtau 1920 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Amphicyonidae
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Cynelos sp.
Jourdan 1862
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Morlo et al. 2007 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
said to be new | ||||||||||
= Cynelos anubisi n. sp.
Morlo and Miller 2019
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Morlo and Miller 2019 | |||||||||
recombined as Mogharacyon anubisi | ||||||||||
Amphicyon giganteus
Schinz 1825
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Morlo and Miller 2019 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Hyaenidae
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Hyaena sp.
Brisson 1762
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Teleoceras snowi n. sp.
Fourtau 1918
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Aceratherium sp.
Kaup 1834
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Mammalia
- Anthracotheriidae
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Masritherium depereti n. gen., n. sp.
Fourtau 1918
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Brachyodus africanus
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Brachyodus moneyi n. sp.
Fourtau 1918
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Eurhinodelphinidae
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Cyrtodelphis aff. sulcatus
(Gervais 1853)
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recombined as Schizodelphis sulcatus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Delphinus vanzelleri n. sp.
Fourtau 1918
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nomen dubium belonging to Odontoceti | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Climacoceratidae
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Prolibytherium magnieri
Arambourg 1961
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Pickford et al. 2001 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
- Hominidae
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? Dryopithecus mogharensis n. sp.
Fourtau 1918
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Victoriapithecidae
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Prohylobates tandyi n. gen., n. sp.
Fourtau 1918
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Actinopteri
- Centropomidae
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Lates sp.
Cuvier 1828
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Fortau 1920 | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Siluriformes
- Mochokidae
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Synodontis sp.
Cuvier 1816
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Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Myliobatidae
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Myliobatis aff. angustidens
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Myliobatis aff. meridionalis
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Myliobatis sp.
Cuvier 1816
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Chondrichthyes
- Rhinopristiformes
- Pristidae
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Pristis sp.
Linck 1790
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Chondrichthyes
- Heterodontiformes
- Heterodontidae
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Sphyrna prisca
Agassiz 1843
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recombined as Cestracion prisca | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Egypt |
Coordinates: | 30.4° North, 28.8° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 29.5° North, 27.8° East |
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
Stage: | Burdigalian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
Key time interval: | MN 4 | ||
Age range of interval: | 16.90000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Moghara | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: type section of formation is "about 230 m" (Morlo et al. 2007) |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | current ripples,hummocky CS,medium,ferruginous sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "The fluviatile sands alternate with near-shore marine deposits comprised of sands and shales... Sands are generally fine to medium-grained, fairly well-sorted, and primarily quartzose in composition. Current structures such as cross-lamination and ripples are frequent as are pebble-sized clasts of both quartz and flint. Mud clasts line paleoerosion surfaces (channel scours), which are commonly ferruginous, associated with petrified wood, and are the source of the fossil vertebrates." (Morlo et al. 2007) | |
Environment: | marginal marine indet. |
Geology comments: formation is "a clastic sequence with a fluvio-marine fauna... formed in a marginal marine coastal realm at the distal reaches of a large fluviatile system trending from southeast to northwest, combined with episodic marine transgressions" (Morlo et al. 2007) |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collection method comments: original collections described by Fourtau (1918, 1920), with newly collected material described starting with Miller (1996) | |
Taxonomic list comments:list consists of specimens from Wadi Moghra that are not assigned to numbered localities |
Metadata
Also known as: | Wadi Moghara | ||
Database number: | 53970 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen, J. Alroy, E. Vlachos, P. Holroyd | Enterer: | M. Uhen, P. Holroyd, E. Vlachos, J. Alroy |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-09-20 07:11:02 | Last modified: | 2012-12-06 09:20:12 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-09-20 07:11:02 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
26934. | R. Fourtau. 1918. Contribution à l'étude des vertébrés miocènes de l'Égypte 1-109 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
43778 | C. Arambourg. 1963. Continental vertebrate faunas of the Tertiary of North Africa. In F. C. Howell, F. Bourliere (eds.), African Ecology and Human Evolution 55-64 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
26787 | R. Fortau. 1920. Contribution a l'etude des vertebres Miocenes de l'Egypt. Egypt Survey Department, Cairo 1-121 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Mannion] | |
59461 | E. S. Gaffney, P. A. Meylan, R. C. Wood, E. Simons, and D. De Almeida Campos. 2011. Evolution of the side-necked turtles: the family Podocnemididae. American Museum Novitates 350:1-237 [D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson/P. Mannion] | |
72533 | G. L. Georgalis, M. K. Abdel Gawad, S. M. Hassan, A. N. El-Barkooky, and M. A. Hamdan. 2020. Oldest co-occurrence of Varanus and Python from Africa—first record of squamates from the early Miocene of Moghra Formation, Western Desert, Egypt. PeerJ 8(e9092):1-26 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] | |
33106 | P. D. Gingerich. 2010. Cetacea. In L. Werdelin & W. J. Sanders (ed.), Cenozoic Mammals of Africa 873-899 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
43809 | E. R. Miller, D. T. Rasmussen, and E. L. Simons. 1997. Fossil storks (Ciconiidae) from the Late Eocene and Early Miocene of Egypt. The Ostrich 68(1):23-26 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
23705 | M. Morlo, E. R. Miller, and A. N. El-Barkooky. 2007. Creodonta and Carnivora from Wadi Moghra, Egypt. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(1):145-159 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
71096 | M. Morlo and E. R. Miller. 2019. New Amphicyonids (Mammalia, Carnivora) from Moghra, Early Miocene, Egypt. Geodiversitas 41(1):731-745 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] | |
14561 | M. Pickford, Y. S. Attia, and M. S. Abd Ghany. 2001. Discovery of Prolibytherium magnieri Arambourg, 1961 (Artiodactyla, Climacoceratidae) in Egypt. Geodiversitas 23(4):647-652 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
14562 | W. J. Sanders and E. R. Miller. 2002. New proboscideans from the early Miocene of Wadi Mogahara, Egypt. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(2):388-404 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
78416 | J. - P. Zonneveld, Μ Κ AbdelGawad, and E. R. Miller. 2021. Ectoparasite borings, mesoparasite borings, and scavenging traces in early Miocene turtle and tortoise shell: Moghra Formation, Wadi Moghra, Egypt. Journal of Paleontology 1-19 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |