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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.
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.
Saghacetus was a small whale, reaching 4 m (13 ft) in length and 350–379 kg (772–836 lb) in body mass. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] It was smaller than its contemporary Stromerius , both of which are smaller than the older Dorudon .
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 ...
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 ...
11-year-old’s fossil discovery reveals ancient creature larger than a blue whale. ... the fossils Ruby found have revealed the jawbone of a giant ichthyosaur that roamed the seas 202 million ...
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 ...
George Schweinfurth, Geziret al-Qarn in Lake Qarun 1879 & Qasr al-Sagha Formation ancient whale fossils named Zeuglodom osiris. Hugh Beadnell, Fayoum 1898; Charles Andrews, 1901, they unearthed a wealth of fossils Palaeomastodon, the oldest known elephant; Eberhard Frass, Fayoum 1905; Walter Granger & Henry F. Osborn, Fayoum 1907; Wendell ...