Where: Egypt (30.0° N, 26.5° E: paleocoordinates 16.6° N, 22.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Libyoceras ismaelis ammonoid zone, Ammonite Hill Member (Dakhla Formation), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• The lower part of the Ammonite Hill Member encloses the ammonite Libyoceras ismaelis and a large number of the pelecypod Exogyra overwegi. The record of both species documents a Maastrichtian age for the fossil-bearing horizons.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; silty, calcareous sandstone and gray, green claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Professor K. -W. Barthel and team in 1979-1980
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),
• Department of Geology and Palaeontology, now the Department of Applied Geosciences II of the Technical University of Berlin. They bear the registration numbers Vb- 173, Vb-214 and 215, Vb-64 1, Vb-648 and
Primary reference: F. Lapparent de Broin and C. Werner. 1998. New Late Cretaceous turtles from the Western Desert, Egypt. Annales de Paléontologie 84(2):131-214 [R. Benson/R. Benson/R. Benson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 128406: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 07.06.2012
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