Western Desert, Egypt: Early/Lower Paleocene, Egypt

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella plana
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Heligmotoma dakhlensis Awad and Abed 1967
originally entered as "Helegmotoma dakhlensis"
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula chargensis Quaas 1902
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Meretrix pectinata
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia wegeneri
see common names

Geography
Country:Egypt State/province:Western Desert
Coordinates: 25.5° North, 29.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:13.1° North, 24.0° East
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Paleocene
Stage:Danian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 1
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Early/Lower Paleocene
Key time interval:Early/Lower Paleocene Zone: Venericardia wegeneri/Ostrea orientalis
Age range of interval:66.00000 - 61.60000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kurkur
Local section:Teneida
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: argillaceous "limestone"
Secondary lithology: phosphorite
Geology comments: lithology described as a clayey limestone with phosphate
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:3133
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:A. Krug, K. Layou
Modifier:A. Krug Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-07-27 11:05:04 Last modified:2002-07-02 09:54:32
Access level:the public Released:1999-07-27 11:05:04
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
144. A. Kassab, A. Kenawy, and M. Zakhira. 1995. Biostratigraphy of some Upper Cretaceous/Lower Tertiary outcrops from the Egyptian Western Desert. Neues Jahrbuch fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie-Abhandlungen 196(3):309-326 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou]