Fossils of Egypt information

Egypt has many fossil-bearing geologic formations, in which many dinosaurs have been discovered. Ernst Stromer Richard Markgraf, early 1900s, (he died...

While the Fayum Oasis is the only site where complete skeletons of Arsinoitherium fossils were recovered, arsinoitheriids have been found in southeastern...

feces (coprolites). These types of fossil are called trace fossils or ichnofossils, as opposed to body fossils. Some fossils are biochemical and are called...

of central Egypt. Aegyptopithecus zeuxis fossils were originally thought to be between 35.4 and 33.3 million years old, based on initial analysis of the...

6 million years ago). Fossils of species within this genus have been found in Germany, Italy (Sardinia), United States, Egypt, Libya and Argentina (Bororó...

genus of prolibytheriid artiodactyl ungulate native to Middle Miocene North Africa and Pakistan, from around 16.9 to 15.97 million years ago. Fossils of Prolibytherium...

(horns of Ammon) in his book Naturalis Historia. Considering the relative rarity of ammonite fossils in Egypt, this may have originated with fossil snail...

holotype was sent to Munich, and its fossils have been found in the Bahariya Formation of Egypt, the Farak Formation of Niger and in several other different...

species are represented in the fossils reported in the scientific literature. The best known species is S. aegyptiacus from Egypt, although a potential second...

limestones from Egypt or from Pakistan. Fossils up to six inches wide are found in the Middle Eocene rocks of Turkey. They are valuable as index fossils. The ancient...

presence of lateral heels feebly serrated. Fossils of this species have been found in North America, South America, Africa, and Europe. Its fossils have also...

and Turonian ages of the Late Cretaceous. The only fossils confidently assigned to Bahariasaurus were found in the Bahariya Formation of the Bahariya (Arabic:...

extinct genus of diminutive basilosaurid cetacean from the Bartonian of Egypt. Tutcetus, named after the child pharaoh Tutankhamun, is both one of the oldest...

discovered in coastal deposits in the Upper Cretaceous Bahariya Formation of Egypt. It lived between 99.6 and 93.5 million years ago. Joshua Smith in 1999...

Depression of Egypt. The fossils have been deposited at the Cairo Geological Museum, Cairo University, and Duke University. At the site, six species of anthracotheres...

Prehistoric Egypt and Predynastic Egypt span the period from the earliest human settlement to the beginning of the Early Dynastic Period around 3100 BC...

Cretaceous) than Baculites (Late Cretaceous-Danian only). The two types of fossils can be distinguished by many features, most obvious among which is the...

Igai is a genus of titanosaur from the Late Cretaceous Quseir Formation of Kharga Oasis, Egypt. The type species is Igai semkhu. The holotype specimen...

Sallam, Hesham M. (2017-04-10). "New adapiform primate fossils from the late Eocene of Egypt". Historical Biology. 30 (1–2): 204–226. doi:10.1080/08912963...

distribution and palaeobiology of the pycnodont fish Gyrodus". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 50 (1): 49–56. Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David...

of small, prehistoric ray-finned fish probably belonging to the family Serranidae that lived during the middle division of the Eocene epoch of Egypt....

("ears"). The first appearance of the species Cladoceramus undulatoplicatus marks the beginning of the Santonian stage. Fossils of the genus have been found...

of giant polypterid from the Upper Cretaceous (lower Cenomanian) Bahariya Formation of Egypt. The type species is B. bartheli, named as a species of Polypterus...

suggesting that it was a swift runner. The skull is not known. One fossil specimen of a single species (D. agilis, or "agile delta runner") has been described...

and had a wide geographic distribution, with fossils found in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Egypt, Uzbekistan, and the United States. Some studies...

extensive vertebrate fossils within a 200 km2 (77 sq mi) area. Fossils are present in high numbers and often show excellent quality of preservation. The...

~376–252 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Composita from the Boone Formation of northern Arkansas. Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Brachiopoda...

17 June 2006. El-Said, Mohammed (29 January 2018). "Near-perfect fossils of Egyptian dinosaur discovered in the Sahara desert". Nature Middle East. doi:10...

rarely branched, with fill that differs from the host rock. Planolites fossils have been found in Africa, Asia, Europe, Antarctica, and the Americas (with...

This list of fossil sites is a worldwide list of localities known well for the presence of fossils. Some entries in this list are notable for a single...