Abu Monqar, horizon 2 (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Egypt (26.5° N, 27.7° E: paleocoordinates 13.3° N, 22.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ammonite Hill Member (Dakhla Formation), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: poorly lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Geological Museum, Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University (CUGM)

Primary reference: E. S. M. Moneer, Y. S. Bazeen, and W. Kassab. 2021. Taxonomy and paleobiogeography of the Maastrichtian cephalopods from the Abu Monqar-west Dakhla stretch, Western Desert, Egypt. Historical Biology 33:3530-3541 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 224161: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.01.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites ovatus Say 1820 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Sphenodiscidae
Sphenodiscus lobatus Tuomey 1856 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
Anglonautilus hewaidyi Moneer et al. 2021