New Valley: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Epitoniidae
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Epitonium lobrosa
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella sexlineata
Roemer 1841
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Arcticidae
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Veniella drui
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Meretrix rohlfsi
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Protocardia moabitica
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Venericardia vredenburgi
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Bivalvia
- Myalinida
- Inoceramidae
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Inoceramus faragi
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Exogyra overwegi
von Buch 1852
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Geography
| Country: | Egypt | State/province: | Western Desert |
| Coordinates: | 25.5° North, 30.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 12.1° North, 24.7° East | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 | *Epoch: | Senonian |
| *International age/stage: | Late/Upper Maastrichtian | ||
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Maastrichtian | Other zone: | Exogyra overwegi |
| Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "shale" |
| Secondary lithology: | sandstone |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 3140 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky | Enterer: | A. Krug, K. Layou |
| Modifier: | J. Sessa | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-07-27 11:35:53 | Last modified: | 2009-08-20 11:34:47 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-07-27 11:35:53 |
| 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] |