Western Desert, Egypt (Cretaceous of Egypt)

Where: Western Desert, Egypt (25.5° N, 30.5° E: paleocoordinates 12.0° N, 25.1° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shale

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 3143: 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
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella sexlineata Roemer 1841 turret shell
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Carditida - Carditidae