On Fossil Evidences of a Sirenian Mammal ( Eotherium ægyptiacum , Owen) from the Nummulitic Eocene of the Mokattam Cliffs, near Cairo

Abstract

The evidence of the Sirenian mammal now submitted to the Society is from the white, compact, fine-grained, calcareous stone of the Nummulitic Eocene Tertiary period, now quarried extensively in the Mokattam cliffs, south of Cairo, for the buildings in progress in the modern part of that city.