New Valley (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Western Desert, Egypt (25.5° N, 30.0° E: paleocoordinates 12.1° N, 24.7° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale and sandstone

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3140: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 27.07.1999, edited by Karen Layou

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella sexlineata Roemer 1841 turret shell
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Veniella drui clam
originally entered as "Veneilla drui"
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Meretrix rohlfsi venus clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Carditida - Carditidae
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra overwegi von Buch 1852 oyster