Qasr el Sagha: Middle Eocene - Late/Upper Eocene, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Asteroidea
- Valvatida
- Goniasteridae
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? Fayoumaster desmoulinsi
(d'Archiac 1850)
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| originally entered as "Fayoumaster? desmoulinsi" | ||||||||||
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Fayoumaster pharaonum
Roman and Strougo 1987
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Polychaeta
- Sabellida
- Serpulidae
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Serpulidae indet.
Rafinesque 1835
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella lessepsi
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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Notocorbula lyonsi
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| spelled with current rank as Corbula (Notocorbula) | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Lucinidae
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Gonimyrtea fajumensis
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea bogharensis
Coquand 1973
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| synonym of Ostrea (Turkostrea) bogharensis | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Egypt |
| Coordinates: | 29.3° North, 30.8° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 23.2° North, 26.1° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Middle Eocene - Late/Upper Eocene |
| Key time interval: | Middle Eocene - Late/Upper Eocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 47.80000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Qasr el-Sagha |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 3290 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky | Enterer: | K. Layou |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-07-29 07:28:32 | Last modified: | 2018-09-07 17:13:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-07-29 07:28:32 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 168. | J. Roman and A. Strougo. 1987. Fayoumaster Pharaonum n. gen., n. sp. (Asteroidea, Goniasteridae) et son cadre stratigraphique et paléoécologique. Annales de Paléontologie 73(1):29-50 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/L. Villier] |