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Fossils Of Egypt
Egypt has many fossil-bearing Geological formation, geologic formations, in which many dinosaurs have been discovered. Scientists *Ernst Stromer *Richard Markgraf, early 1900s, (he died in Sinnuris of Giza in 1916) * A. B. Orlebar, Fayoum 1845 * George Schweinfurth, Geziret al-Qarn in Lake Qarun 1879 & Qasr al-Sagha Formation ancient whale fossils named Zeuglodom osiris. * Hugh Beadnell, Fayoum 1898 * Charles William Andrews, Charles Andrews, 1901, they unearthed a wealth of fossils Palaeomastodon, the oldest known elephant * Eberhard Frass, Fayoum 1905 * Walter W. Granger, Walter Granger & Henry F. Osborn, Fayoum 1907 * Wendell Phillips, 1947 * Elwyn L. Simons, Fayoum 1961–1986 * Thomas M. Bown and David Tab Rasmussen, 1980s Fossils Petrified Wood Fayoum, Petrified wood protectorate in New Cairo, New-Cairo Area/ Cairo-Suez desert road & entire Western Desert (Egypt), Western Desert of Egypt is covered in Petrified wood. This is one of the clues that the region was a tropic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egypt
Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northern coast of Egypt, the north, the Gaza Strip of Palestine and Israel to Egypt–Israel barrier, the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to Egypt–Sudan border, the south, and Libya to Egypt–Libya border, the west; the Gulf of Aqaba in the northeast separates Egypt from Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Cairo is the capital, list of cities and towns in Egypt, largest city, and leading cultural center, while Alexandria is the second-largest city and an important hub of industry and tourism. With over 109 million inhabitants, Egypt is the List of African countries by population, third-most populous country in Africa and List of countries and dependencies by population, 15th-most populated in the world. Egypt has one of the longest histories o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Tab Rasmussen
David Tab Rasmussen (June 17, 1958 – August 7, 2014), also known as D. Tab Rasmussen, was an American biological anthropologist. Specializing in both paleontology and behavioral ecology with interests in Paleogene mammals, early primate evolution, prosimians (lorises, lemurs, and tarsiers), and birds, he synthesized multiple fields of study in order to better understand evolutionary processes. His field research spanned the western United States as well as internationally in Africa and the Neotropics. He published over 85 research articles. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1958, Rasmussen grew up in the Sonoran Desert, which he frequently explored as a child and young adult. After obtaining his PhD from Duke University under the guidance of Elwyn L. Simons in 1986, he went on to work at Rice University and University of California, Los Angeles before finally settling at Washington University in St. Louis where he spent the remainder of his career. He was active in the g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Victoria
Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes. With a surface area of approximately , Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake by area, the world's largest tropics, tropical lake, and the world's second-largest fresh water lake by surface area after Lake Superior in North America. In terms of volume, Lake Victoria is the world's list of lakes by volume, ninth-largest continental lake, containing about of water. Lake Victoria occupies a shallow Depression (geology), depression in Africa. The lake has an average depth of and a maximum depth of .United Nations, ''Development and Harmonisation of Environmental Laws Volume 1: Report on the Legal and Institutional Issues in the Lake Victoria Basin'', United Nations, 1999, page 17 Its drainage basin, catchment area covers . The lake has a shoreline of when digitized at the 1:25,000 level, with islands constituting 3.7% of this length. The lake's area is divided among three countries: Tanzania occupies 49% (), Uganda 45% (), and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uganda
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The southern part includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, shared with Kenya and Tanzania. Uganda is in the African Great Lakes region, lies within the Nile basin, and has a varied equatorial climate. , it has a population of 49.3 million, of whom 8.5 million live in the capital and largest city, Kampala. Uganda is named after the Buganda, Buganda kingdom, which encompasses a large portion of the south, including Kampala, and whose language Luganda is widely spoken; the official language is English. The region was populated by various ethnic groups, before Bantu and Nilotic groups arrived around 3,000 years ago. These groups established influential kingdoms such as the Empire of Kitara. The arrival of Arab trade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomistoma
''Tomistoma'' is a genus of gavialid crocodilians. They are noted for their long narrow snouts used to catch fish, similar to the gharial. ''Tomistoma'' contains one extant (living) member, the false gharial (''Tomistoma schlegelii''), as well as potentially several extinct species: ''T. cairense'', ''T. lusitanicum'' and ''T. coppensi''. Previously assigned extinct species known from fossils are reclassified as different genera such as ''Eogavialis'', '' Toyotamaphimeia'' and '' Sutekhsuchus''. Unlike the gharial, the false gharial's snout broadens considerably towards the base and so is more similar to those of true crocodiles than the gharial, whose osteology indicated a distinct lineage from all other living crocodilians.Piras, P., Colangelo, P., Adams, D. C., Buscalioni, A., Cubo, J., Kotsakis, T., & Raia, P. (2010). ''The Gavialis–Tomistoma debate: the contribution of skull ontogenetic allometry and growth trajectories to the study of crocodylian relationships''. Evol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gigantophis
''Gigantophis'' is an extinct genus of giant snake containing a single species, ''G. garstini''. Before the Paleocene constrictor genus '' Titanoboa'' was described from Colombia in 2009, ''G. garstini'' was regarded as the largest snake ever recorded. It lived about 40 million years ago during the Eocene epoch of the Paleogene Period, in the Paratethys Sea, within the northern Sahara, where Egypt and Algeria are now located. Description Size Jason Head, of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, has compared fossil ''Gigantophis garstini'' vertebrae to those of the largest modern snakes, and concluded that the extinct snake could grow from in length. If , it would have been more than 10% longer than its largest living relatives. Later estimates, based on allometric equations scaled from the articular processes of tail vertebrae referred to ''Gigantophis garstini'', revised the length of ''Gigantophis garstini'' to . Discovery The species is known only from a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Podocnemis Blanckenhorni
''Podocnemis'' is a genus of aquatic turtles, commonly known as South American river turtles, in the family Podocnemididae. The genus consists of six extant species occurring in tropical South America.''Podocnemis'' The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org. Four additional species are known only from fossils. These turtles have pig-like noses but are not closely related to the . Species These six species are extant. *''Podocnemis erythrocephala'' – |
Testudo Ammon
Testudo (which meant "tortoise" in classical Latin) may refer to: * Battering ram, an armored siege engine with metal plating on the top to protect from missiles fired from above * Chevrolet Testudo, a concept car designed and built by Bertone on a Chevrolet Corvair unibody chassis * Steel Testudo or the Nationalist-Socialist Party of Romania, 1930s political party * Testudo (mascot), the mascot of University of Maryland, College Park * ''Testudo'' (genus), a genus in the tortoise family of turtles * Testudo formation, a Roman military tactic which involved a formation of soldiers using their shields to form a tortoise-shell-like protective cover against enemy weapons * Testudo, the Latin variant of the Greek chelys harp, involving a sound-box made from a tortoise shell * Testudo, an obsolete constellation now in the constellation of Pisces See also * Tortoise (other) A tortoise is a land-dwelling reptile, protected by a shell, of the order Testudines. Tortoise may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fayoum
Faiyum ( ; , ) is a city in Middle Egypt. Located southwest of Cairo, in the Faiyum Oasis, it is the capital of the modern Faiyum Governorate. It is one of Egypt's oldest cities due to its strategic location. Name and etymology Originally founded by the ancient Egyptians as Shedet, its current name in English is also spelled as Fayum, Faiyum or al-Faiyūm. Faiyum was also previously officially named Madīnat al-Faiyūm (Arabic for ''The City of Faiyum''). The name Faiyum (and its spelling variations) may also refer to the Faiyum Oasis, although it is commonly used by Egyptians today to refer to the city. The modern name of the city comes from Coptic / ' (whence also the personal name '), meaning ''the Sea'' or ''the Lake'', which in turn comes from late Egyptian ''pꜣ-ym'' of the same meaning, a reference to the nearby Lake Moeris; the extinct elephant ancestor '' Phiomia'' was named after it. Ancient history Archaeological evidence has found occupations around the F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turtle
Turtles are reptiles of the order (biology), order Testudines, characterized by a special turtle shell, shell developed mainly from their ribs. Modern turtles are divided into two major groups, the Pleurodira (side necked turtles) and Cryptodira (hidden necked turtles), which differ in the way the head retracts. There are 360 living and recently extinct species of turtles, including land-dwelling tortoises and freshwater terrapins. They are found on most continents, some islands and, in the case of sea turtles, much of the ocean. Like other Amniote, amniotes (reptiles, birds, and mammals) they breathe air and do not lay eggs underwater, although many species live in or around water. Turtle shells are made mostly of bone; the upper part is the domed Turtle shell#Carapace, carapace, while the underside is the flatter plastron or belly-plate. Its outer surface is covered in scale (anatomy), scales made of keratin, the material of hair, horns, and claws. The carapace bones deve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
