Also known as Ganah, Gennah, Ginah, Kharga Oasis

Where: New Valley, Egypt (25.3° N, 30.6° E: paleocoordinates 8.9° N, 26.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hindaw Member (Quseir Formation), Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• The Quseir Formation extends between Kharga and Baris, attaining a thickness varying between 60 and 80 m

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by M. AbdelGawad

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Material deposited in NVP, New Valley Vertebrate Paleontology Center, New Valley University, Kharga, Egypt.

Primary reference: M. AbdelGawad, A. Pérez-García, R. Hirayama, S. Mohesn, A.-A. Tantawy and G. Abu El-Kheir. 2023. The First Side-Necked Turtle (Pleurodira, Bothremydidae) from the Campanian (Late Cretaceous) of Egypt. Diversity 15:284:1-11 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 229326: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 28.02.2023, edited by Philip Mannion

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