Mohamed Korany Ismail Abdelgawad <br/><br/>
Crocodylian and testudines paleontological and paleoenvironmental studies of the early miocene sediments, Qattara depression, North Western Desert, Egypt /  
 دراسة بالينتولوجية للتماسيح و السلاحف و البيئات القديمة لرواسب الميوسين المبكر: منخفض القطارة شمال الصحراء الغربية: مصر  
Mohamed Korany Ismail Abdelgawad ; Supervised Mohamed Abdelrahman Hamdan , Ahmed Niazy Elbarkooky , Hesham Mohamed Sallam 
 - Cairo :   Mohamed Korany Ismail Abdelgawad ,   2016 
 - 245 P. :   photographs ;   25cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Science - Department of Geology 
<br/><br/> Moghra formation, qattara depression of northern Egypt, remains one of the main sites of the early miocene vertebrate fossils in Africa. Moghra  Formation is best exposed along the Northern scarp of qattara depression. It consists mainly of sandstone and shale intercalations related to tide dominated estuary environment. The mammalian remains are the best known and diverse components of the vertebrate fauna and they include aquatic, semiaquatic, freshwater and terrestrial taxa. The vertebrate remains are concentrated within lag deposits in four stratigraphic horizons. The previous studies were focused on the mammalian remains with little attention to the reptiles from moghra. The present study focuses on the reptilian remains particularly crocodylian and testudines which are concentrated only on the first lower horizon. The identified and described specimens (more than 120) belong to crocodiles and turtles. Four crocodylian genera belonging to one family (crocodylidae) and three subfamilies (crocodylinae, tomistominae and euthecodontinae) are systematically described. Crocodylinae includes rimasuchus lloydi and crocodylus, while tomistominae includes tomistoma dowsoni and euthecodontinae includes euthecodon. Five testudines genera belonging to two  families are systematically described. This are podocnemidodda including erymnochelys, mogharemys, latentemys and lemurchelys, and trionychidae including trionyx 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Crocodylian and testudines paleontological Miocene sediments Moghra formation