Western Desert, Egypt: Early/Lower Paleocene, Egypt
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Arca schweinfurthi
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Venericardia vredenburgi
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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Corbula acutata
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Glossidae
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Glossus mayeri
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Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Nuculanidae
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Nuculana protexta
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Bivalvia
- Nuculida
- Nuculidae
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Nucula chargensis
Quaas 1902
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Architectonicidae
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Heliacus tenuilineatus
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Ringiculidae
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Avellana chargensis
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella plana
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Melongenidae
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Heligmotoma libycum
(Mayer-Eymar 1895)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Fasciolariidae
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Fasciolaria densiplicata
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Volutidae
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Volutospina khargensis
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| spelled with current rank as Athleta (Volutospina) | ||||||||||
| originally entered as "Volutispina khargensis" | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Aporrhaidae
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Aporrhais bicarinatus
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Anchura schweinfurthi
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Geography
| Country: | Egypt | State/province: | Western Desert |
| Coordinates: | 25.5° North, 30.5° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 13.0° North, 25.0° 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: | Nucula chargensis/Venericardia libyca |
| Age range of interval: | 66.00000 - 61.60000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Dakhla |
| Local section: | Um El Ghanayem |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "shale" |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 3146 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky | Enterer: | A. Krug, K. Layou |
| Modifier: | A. Krug | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-07-27 12:07:38 | Last modified: | 2002-07-02 10:00:43 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-07-27 12:07:38 |
| 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] |