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Eotheroides aegyptiacum (Owen, 1875)
The Natural History Museum
London, United Kingdom
Details
- Title: Eotheroides aegyptiacum (Owen, 1875)
- Verbatim longitude: 030 01 36 E
- Verbatim latitude: 31 16 18 N
- Type status: Holotype
- Specific epithet: aegyptiacum
- Scientific name authorship: (Owen, 1875)
- Phylum: Chordata
- Order: Sirenia
- Member: Lower Building Stone Member
- Locality: Mokattam Range; Cairo; Gebel Mokattam; Mokattam Cliffs
- Latest era or highest erathem: Cenozoic
- Latest eon or highest eonothem: Phanerozoic
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Identified by: Dr Theodore S. Palmer; b.26/01/1868; d.24/07/1955; Palmer
- Identification Qualifier: Recombined Eotherium aegyptiacum as Eotheroides aegyptiacum (replacement name)
- Higher geography: Africa; Egypt; Mokattam Range, Cairo, Gebel Mokattam, Mokattam Cliffs; Africa; Egypt
- Higher classification: Animalia; Chordata; Vertebrata; Mammalia; Sirenia; Dugongidae
- Genus: Eotheroides
- Formation: Mokattam Formation
- Family: Dugongidae
- Earliest period or lowest system: Paleogene
- Earliest era or lowest erathem: Cenozoic
- Earliest epoch or lowest series: Eocene
- Earliest eon or Lowest eonothem: Phanerozoic
- Earliest age or Lowestst age: Lutetian
- Country: Egypt
- Continent: Africa
- Class: Mammalia
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