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The most conspicuous fossils are the skeletons and bones of whales and sea cows, and over several hundred fossils of these have been documented. [9] Wādī al-Ḥītān (Whale Valley) is unusual in having such a large concentration of fossil whales (1500 marine vertebrate fossil skeletons) in a relatively small area.
Fayoum's whale or Zeuglodon or more precisely the Basilosaurus in Fayoum's Wadi Zeuglodon (or wadi al-Hitan, Whale Valley) Another whale in Wadi Zeuglodon is the Dorudon; Primitive whale from Fayum Depression Phiomicetus; Arsinoitherium, a rhinoceros like animal with two horns Arsinoitherium zitteli; Arsinoitherium andrewsi; Elephants in Fayoum
Plan of a whale skeleton found in the Gehannam Formation in Wadi el-Hitan Site L-41 of the Gebel-Qatrani Formation. The fossils come from several geological Formations. Plant fossils only occur in large numbers in the Gebel-Qatrani Formation. On the other hand, invertebrates can be found in almost all rock units, while vertebrates are more ...
Researchers in Egypt unearthed one of the smallest early whale species. The basilosaurid is the oldest aquatic whale found in Africa, the new study said. Fossil discovery causes monumental shift ...
Saghacetus is common in the middle of Qasr el Sagha, but there are few other specimens of archaeocetes whales; the only exception being the enigmatic "Prozeuglodon stromeri", named in 1828 based on specimens from 1904, but never adequately described before their destruction during the bombing of Munich in World War II.
Its original skeleton was described in 1914 after it was excavated in the Bahariya Oasis in Egypt and then stored together with other Egyptian dinosaur fossils in the Bavarian State Collection for ...
Fossilized clues suggest a small whale was ambushed, bitten, and dramatically thrashed by this colossal shark species."To have been on the receiving end of a megalodon A powerful megalodon ...
Phiomicetus was unearthed in 2008 at Al Amaim, which lies on the southern margin of Wadi Al-Ruwayan in the Fayum Depression, in the Western Desert of Egypt. The holotype specimen, MUVP500, is the partial skeleton of a single individual that includes the cranium, right mandible, an incomplete left mandible, several teeth, fifth cervical vertebra, sixth thoracic vertebra, sixth left rib, and an ...