Egypt 1: Danian, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
- Metacerithiidae
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Metacerithium abictiforme
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella nazigae
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Gastropoda
- Potamididae
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Libycerithium dachelensis
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Gastropoda
- Aporrhaidae
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Anchura schweinfurthi
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Drepanocheilus bicarinatus
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Drepanocheilus unicarinatus
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Ringiculidae
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Gilbertina abbassi
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Avellana chargensis
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Egypt |
Coordinates: | 25.4° North, 32.4° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 12.8° North, 26.7° East |
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
Stage: | Danian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 |
*Period: | Tertiary | ||
Key time interval: | Danian | ||
Age range of interval: | 66.00000 - 61.60000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "shale" |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Collection method comments: this list was in a previously published monograph of the series as a late Cretaceous list |
Metadata
Database number: | 2927 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky | Enterer: | K. Layou |
Modifier: | C. Visaggi | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 1999-07-22 11:27:14 | Last modified: | 2004-03-11 16:25:05 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-11-20 13:53:17 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
130. | H. L. Abbass. 1967. A monograph on the Egyptian Paleocene and Eocene gastropods. United Arab Republic, Geological Survey-Geological Museum, Palaeontological Series, Monograph (4)1-154 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/A. Clement] |