Kharga Oasis (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Also known as Oase Charge

Where: New Valley, Egypt (25.5° N, 30.5° E: paleocoordinates 12.0° N, 25.1° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Venericardia quassi other zone, Dakhla Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Overwegischichten

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. T. Groves. 1994. Jurassic and Cretaceous cypraeacean biogeography and paleontology, with an annotated list of the species. The Cowry 1(2):25-41 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 180641: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 25.07.2016

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae