Qasr el Sagha Formation is a geological formation located in Egypt. The formation is part of the Wadi El Hitan World Heritage Site. The Qasr el Sagha...
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escarpment and the Qasr el Sagha escarpment, north of Birket Qarun lake near Faiyum. The formation conformably overlies the Qasr el Sagha Formation and is topped...
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described Moeritherium lyonsi from fossil remains found in the Qasr el Sagha Formation in the Al Fayyum in Egypt. Andrews described Moeritherium gracile...
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as 9 m (30 ft) in diameter, have been found eroding out of the Qasr el Sagha Formation within the Faiyum depression of Egypt. Concretions occur in a wide...
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Fayyum (fossil deposit) (section Widan-el-Faras-Basalt)
Garet-el-Naqb Formation divides the Birket-Qarun Formation as a strikingly dark horizon or directly overlies the Gehannam Formation. The Qasr-el-Sagha formation...
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Upper Eocene (middle Priabonian, 37.2 to 33.9 million years ago) Qasr el Sagha Formation, Egypt (29°42′N 30°48′E / 29.7°N 30.8°E / 29.7; 30.8, paleocoordinates...
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Basilosaurus (section Wadi El Hitan)
Saghacetus osiris) in 1879. He visited the Qasr el Sagha Formation in 1884 and 1886 and missed the now famous Wadi El Hitan by a few kilometers. German paleontologist...
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Lake Moeris (redirect from Birket el Qurun)
distant relative of modern elephants first described from the nearby Qasr el Sagha Formation. The name "Lake Moeris" is derived from the Greek translation (Μοῖρῐς...
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1845 George Schweinfurth, Geziret al-Qarn in Lake Qarun 1879 & Qasr al-Sagha Formation ancient whale fossils named Zeuglodom osiris. Hugh Beadnell, Fayoum...
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nidensis, new archaeocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Upper Eocene Qasr El-Sagha Formation, Fayum, Egypt" (PDF). Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology...
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podocnemoides Qasr el Sagha Formation, Egypt, Late Eocene †Dacquemys Birket Qarun Formation, Egypt, Late Eocene, Jebel Qatrani Formation, Egypt, Early...
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nidensis, new archaeocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Upper Eocene Qasr El-Sagha Formation, Fayum, Egypt" (PDF). Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology...
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Wadi al Hitan (redirect from Wadi El Hitan)
in that direction. The tops of the higher cliffs are within the Qasr el Sagha Formation, which comprises dark mudstones alternating with limestones full...
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eocaenus. This was found in Upper Eocene Jebel Qatrani Formation deposits around the Qasr el Sagha escarpment, north of the Birket Qarun lake near Faiyum...
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nidensis, new archaeocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Upper Eocene Qasr El-Sagha Formation, Fayum, Egypt" (PDF). Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology...
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nidensis, new archaeocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Upper Eocene Qasr El-Sagha Formation, Fayum, Egypt" (PDF). Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology...
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which the same formation is exposed. Such sites may have separate entries if they are considered to be more notable than the formation as a whole. In...
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NIDENSIS, NEW ARCHAEOCETE (MAMMALIA, CETACEA) FROM THE UPPER EOCENE QASR EL-SAGHA FORMATION, FAYUM, EGYPT" (PDF). Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology...
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M. lyonsi and M. ancestrale, keeping only one species for the Qasr el Sagha Formation under the name M. lyonsi. Petronijević's contributions to the philosophy...
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nidensis, new archaeocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Upper Eocene Qasr El-Sagha Formation, Fayum, Egypt" (PDF). Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology...
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nidensis, new archaeocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Upper Eocene Qasr El-Sagha Formation, Fayum, Egypt". Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology 31...
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Qarun and Qasr el-Sagha Formations), Libya) Madtsoia Simpson, 1933 Madtsoia bai Simpson, 1933 (Paleogene, Early Eocene Sarmiento Formation; Argentina)...
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africanum, on the basis of a specimen found from an outcrop of the Qasr el-Sagha Formation in Egypt, about 20 miles northwest of Faiyum, dating back to the...
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species of Apterodon (Mammalia, Creodonta) from the upper Eocene Qasr el-Sagha Formation of Egypt." Postilla 168:1-9 Andreae, A. (1887.) "Ein neues Raubtier...
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of Cordichelys is described from the Eocene Birket Qarun Formation and Qasr el Sagha Formation (Egypt) by Cherney et al. (2020), who evaluate the implications...
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foliage shoots and associated seed cones from the Oligocene Ningming Formation of Guangxi, South China". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 166 (3–4):...
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