The Fayum is a region and an important fossil Lagerstätte in northern Egypt. The region comprises the Fayum Basin, which is intensively used for agriculture...
156 KB (20,188 words) - 09:46, 8 March 2025
Moeritherium (category Fossil taxa described in 1901)
West Africa. The first specimen was discovered in strata from the Fayum fossil deposits of Egypt. It was named in 1901 by Charles William Andrews, who suggested...
27 KB (2,900 words) - 17:41, 22 May 2025
Palaeomastodon (category Fossil taxa described in 1901)
specimen discovered was recovered from strata belonging to the Fayum fossil deposits of Egypt. It was described and named in 1901 by Charles Williams...
22 KB (2,298 words) - 20:45, 22 May 2025
Faiyum Oasis (redirect from Fayum Depression)
Creed: Origins game. Bahr Yussef canal Faiyum Fayum (fossil deposit) Faiyum Governorate Farafra Fayum mummy portraits Lake Moeris Monastery of the Archangel...
12 KB (1,613 words) - 06:00, 24 May 2025
Phiomia (category Fossil taxa described in 1902)
belonging to the Jebel Qatrani Formation, part of the Eocene-age Fayum fossil deposits of Egypt. In 1902, the mandible was described by Charles William...
21 KB (2,288 words) - 06:02, 23 May 2025
Crocodylomorph Material from the Fayum Depression, Egypt, Including the First Occurrence of a Sebecosuchian in African Late Eocene Deposits". Journal of Vertebrate...
43 KB (2,087 words) - 16:43, 22 May 2025
Qasr el Sagha Formation (category Deltaic deposits)
were deposited in a deltaic to shallow marine environment. It dates to the Late Eocene (middle Priabonian, 37.2 to 33.9 million years ago). Fossils of the...
15 KB (636 words) - 21:57, 27 May 2025
Arsinoitherium (category Fossil taxa described in 1902)
Vertebrata of the Fayum. Publ. Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist. Land. XXXVII. Anonymous. (1903). A New Egyptian Mammal (Arsinoitherium) from the Fayûm. (1903). Geological...
10 KB (973 words) - 22:58, 23 May 2025
in a 2006 publication Seiffert draws a comparison between the Fayum fauna and the fossil record of the Ashawq Formation in Oman, which notably preserved...
86 KB (4,296 words) - 21:56, 27 May 2025
William; Olson, Storrs L. (2021). "A new fossil raptor (Accipitridae: Buteogallus) from Quaternary cave deposits in Cuba and Hispaniola, West Indies". Bulletin...
245 KB (19,042 words) - 01:25, 25 May 2025
Richard Markgraf (section 1907 Fayum expedition)
discovery of the Jebel Qatrani Formation, which is a large Oligocene fossil deposit within the oasis. Stationed at Ain Gedid in Egypt, Markgraf stopped...
9 KB (922 words) - 16:22, 12 February 2025
Eogavialis (category Fossil taxa described in 1982)
and E. gavialoides were found was also deposited in a fluvial paleoenvironment, although much older. Other fossils found from the formation include those...
15 KB (1,624 words) - 20:11, 29 March 2025
Eotheroides (category Fossil taxa described in 1899)
(1994). "Late Eocene sea cows (Mammalia, Sirenia) from Wadi Al Hitan in the Fayum Basin, Egypt". Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology. 29 (2). University...
7 KB (659 words) - 22:46, 9 May 2025
different from those of platyrrhines. Qatrania wingi of lower Oligocene Fayum deposits is considered the closest known relative of Ucayalipithecus. The absence...
8 KB (920 words) - 07:32, 30 November 2024
from extinct order Hyaenodonta. Fossil remains of these mammals are known from middle Paleocene to late Eocene deposits in Africa. Borths, Matthew R.,...
3 KB (169 words) - 20:33, 25 May 2025
discoveries of three 40-million-year-old fossil lorisoids (Karanisia, Saharagalago, and Wadilemur) in the El Fayum deposits of Egypt between 1997 and 2005, the...
17 KB (1,448 words) - 12:25, 14 March 2025
Eremopezus (category Fossil taxa described in 1904)
Formation deposits around the Qasr el Sagha escarpment, north of the Birket Qarun lake near Faiyum in Egypt. The rocks its fossils occur in were deposited in...
41 KB (5,304 words) - 05:57, 8 April 2025
Prehistoric Egypt (redirect from Fayum A culture)
Prehistory. 2 (2): 135–185. doi:10.1007/BF00975416. ISSN 1573-7802. "Fayum, Qarunian (Fayum B) (about 6700-5300 BC?)". Digital Egypt for Universities. University...
86 KB (9,398 words) - 11:00, 26 May 2025
Witwatia (category Fossil taxa described in 2008)
the Fayum Depression environment was home to at least two lineages of large-sized chiropterans that developed gigantism independently. Fayyum (fossil deposit)...
3 KB (300 words) - 14:03, 1 October 2024
Sectisodon (category Fossil taxa described in 2017)
Hyaenodontidae) from the late Eocene-early Oligocene Jebel Qatrani Formation, Fayum province, Egypt." PaleoBios 19(2):1-18 Jorge Morales; Martin Pickford (2017)...
3 KB (241 words) - 19:50, 28 November 2024
Otodus sokolovi (category Fossil taxa described in 1895)
late Eocene localities around Dakhla, Morocco and Fayum, Egypt but are represented in many deposits of contemporary age. It measured at least 6 metres...
3 KB (309 words) - 01:16, 19 December 2024
Saadanius (category Fossil taxa described in 2010)
gomphothere and mammutid suggests that the deposits are younger than the Jebel Qatrani Formation at Fayum in Egypt, while the other taxa indicate an older...
18 KB (1,862 words) - 10:23, 7 February 2025
wingi of lower Oligocene Fayum deposits is considered the closest known relative of Ucayalipithecus. The absence of later fossil finds from this group in...
3 KB (268 words) - 03:45, 23 March 2024
Tab, O., Storrs, L., & Simons, E. L. (1987). Fossil Birds from the Oligocene Jebel Qatrani Formation, Fayum Province, Egypt. Smithsonian Contributions to...
13 KB (1,301 words) - 23:56, 4 May 2025
Bothriogenys (category Fossil taxa described in 1913)
early Oligocene. Most fossils have been found in Fayum, Egypt, but one species, B. orientalis, is known from late Eocene deposits in Thailand. It is believed...
3 KB (173 words) - 08:06, 28 May 2025
Rasmussen, D.T.; Olson, S.L.; Simons, E.L. (1987). "Fossil birds from the Oligocene Jebel Qatrani formation Fayum Province, Egypt". Smithsonian Contributions...
30 KB (3,223 words) - 22:56, 26 May 2025
Gavialosuchus (category Fossil taxa described in 1885)
antiqua (Leidy, 1852) (Crocodylidae: Thoracosaurinae) from the fossil marine deposits at Lee Creek Mine, Aurora, North Carolina, USA". Smithsonian Contributions...
13 KB (1,052 words) - 00:48, 24 May 2025
Cormorant (section Evolution and fossil record)
England) "Pelecaniformes" gen. et sp. indet. (Jebel Qatrani Early Oligocene of Fayum, Egypt) – similar to Piscator? Borvocarbo (Late Oligocene of C Europe) The...
56 KB (5,701 words) - 12:42, 26 May 2025
Hyaenodontoidea in extinct order Hyaenodonta. Fossil remains of these mammals are known from early to late Eocene deposits in Europe. Schlosser, M. (1886.) "Paläontologische...
6 KB (293 words) - 14:53, 29 March 2025
C.W. (1906). A descriptive catalogue of the Tertiary Vertebrata of the Fayûm. British Museum, London. Taylor and Francis. p. 324. Mondéjar-Fernández;...
412 KB (43,018 words) - 23:12, 30 May 2025